New York judge slapped with child porn charges

NEW YORK - A former Manhattan criminal court judge is being probed after child porn images were found in his office computer, a media report said.

Pictures of naked teenage girls have been found in the work computer of former judge James Gibbons, officials from multiple law-enforcement agencies told the New York Post.

“These appear to be from illegal sites, with illegal content,” said an official, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Computer forensic investigators, who were still looking at the files from the former judge’s hard drive, are now trying to prove the girls depicted in the pictures were actually underage, they said.

“The girls definitely look underage,” said another official, who also asked to not be identified. “If she looks 14, is she really 14? Or is she 17, and so it’s not illegal?”

Gibbons, 47, resigned Aug 17.

Under New York law, it is illegal to possess pornographic images of a child under the age of 16.