SF Activist Arrested For Child Porn

Veteran LGBT rights activist Larry Brinkin was arrested on Friday for the possession of child pornography. Brinkin is a former member of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission.

Police say that Brinkin had pornographic images, some that appear to show children as young as 1 and 2 or 3 years old being sodomized and performing oral sex on adult men, in e-mail attachments linked to his account, according to a search warrant served by San Francisco police. Representatives of America Online contacted authorities after coming across e-mail attachments from one of its subscriber's accounts containing what they believed to be child pornography. The Los Angeles Police Department, which was assigned to the case, traced the IP address associated with the account, Zack3737@aol.com, to Brinkin, a San Francisco resident, according to court records. Los Angeles police forwarded the case to San Francisco police. San Francisco investigators say the account was registered to Brinkin, and that he paid for the e-mail service with his credit card. Police provided two examples of e-mail messages from last year in which Zack3737 provides disturbing descriptions of the exploitive sexual acts.

Anti-gay hate groups are already trumpeting the arrest.