| | When first arrested Brinkin pleaded not guilty. For two years his friends in high places shielded him from prosecution and from media coverage, blanking out everything about this case from the internet except on small inter-personal networking. | | When first arrested Brinkin pleaded not guilty. For two years his friends in high places shielded him from prosecution and from media coverage, blanking out everything about this case from the internet except on small inter-personal networking. |
| − | When his trial finally came, Brinkin pleaded guilty. The evidence was just too damning as the messages were sent from his e-mail address, and from his IP address, over a number of years. Police showed the court items including computers, USB sticks, videos, VHS tapes, and a floppy disc. The photographs and films were paid for with his credit card. He was convicted in January 2014. Yet he got only 6 months in jail. Brinkin’s very generous pension from the city of San Francisco was not terminated. The whole case suffered from media blackout. Nearly all news of Brinkin’s conviction has been kept off internet search engines. <ref> | + | When his trial finally came, Brinkin pleaded guilty. The evidence was just too damning as the messages were sent from his e-mail address, and from his IP address, over a number of years. The prosecution showed the court items found by police at his home including computers, USB sticks, videos, VHS tapes, and a floppy disc, with pedophile content. The photographs and films were paid for with his credit card. He was convicted in January 2014. Yet he got only 6 months in jail. Brinkin’s very generous pension from the city of San Francisco was not terminated. The whole case suffered from media blackout. Nearly all news of Brinkin’s conviction has been kept off internet search engines. <ref> |
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