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Man arrested in vast child porn network

Updated: Friday, 24 Aug 2012, 1:55 PM MDT
Published : Friday, 24 Aug 2012, 1:55 PM MDT

ALBUQUERQUE (AP) - A New Mexico man has been charged in a massive child porn investigation that started in Massachusetts and has led to 46 arrests in seven countries.

Sixty-seven-year-old Richard Dates of Grants, N.M., made an initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Albuquerque on Friday. The reporter and copy editor for the Cibola Beacon newspaper told the judge he is on Social Security and cannot afford to pay for an attorney.

He is scheduled to appear in court Monday for a preliminary hearing and a bail hearing.

In documents filed in federal court Friday, authorities said searches of computers owned by a Massachusetts man and a Kansas man arrested earlier this year showed Dates had chatted online with the men and received photos of children engaged in sexual acts.

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