Boy Scout executive charged with child porn
A former top official of the Boy Scouts of America faces federal Internet child pornography charges and is expected to plead guilty Wednesday, a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office said. Douglas S. Smith Jr. faces a single count of receiving and distributing child pornography... The U.S. attorney's office in Fort Worth, Texas, filed the charges after federal investigators found images of children engaging in sex acts on Smith's computer... Smith retired from the Boy Scouts in February after a 39-year career with the youth organization, based in suburban Dallas... Smith, a former Eagle Scout, previously served as the Boy Scouts' director of programming. [
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