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Brown Student Accused in Child Porn Case
11:33PM ON
02/21/2008
BY
Ariel Werner
Bill O’Reilly grab your notepad, because it looks like you’ve got more fodder for “Ivy League Debauchery.” Harrison Zolnierczyk, a Brown University freshman hockey team member, is facing charges of distributing child pornography. Zolnierczyk, who came to Brown via Toronto, will appear in the Port Alberni Provincial Court in Canada on March 13. Talia Buford reports in the Projo:
Zolnierczyk and his former teammate, Bradley Harding, were charged with four counts on July 9, 2007 of surreptitiously making a recording in a situation where a reasonable expectation of privacy is expected, knowingly distributing that recording, possessing child pornography and distributing child pornography. Harding pleaded guilty to the charges and is awaiting sentencing, said Cpl. Rob Foster, of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Foster would not confirm any details of the incident yesterday, but did say that Zolnierczyk was facing charges resulting from an incident in the fall of 2006. The Canadian news wire, Canwest News Service, reported that Zolnierczyk and Harding made a sex tape with a teenage girl and posted it on on the Web site YouTube.
[...] Phone calls to Molly deRamel, spokeswoman for Brown University, and Roger Grillo, coach of the hockey team, were not immediately returned yesterday. It is unclear whether Zolnierczyk is still playing on the team or if he faces suspension.
A) Why is it unclear whether or not Zolnierczyk is facing suspension? Frankly, if I still lived on campus, I’d be concerned to meet Harrison in the bathroom at night… Can we get some info, Brunonia?
B) If this happened in 2006, why is it surfacing only now? Did Brown admissions officers and hockey recruiters think this one through or look the other way? It seems to have been publicized far and wide on the world wide web [albeit, mostly on sites ending in .ca, and I know it's hard to take most things Canadian seriously...].
C) YouTube? YOUTUBE?!? C’mon guys… I know Canadian jail is fun but really?
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