MISSOURI
The Kansas City Star
May 16
BY GLENN E. RICE
The Kansas City Star
None the computers seized from an Independence Catholic church in March by federal and state authorities contained photographs or videos of child pornography, according to a spokesman for the Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph.
The computers were taken from the office of St. Ann Parish at 10113 E. Lexington Ave., on March 26 after detectives alerted parish officials that they had detected two downloads of child pornography from peer-to-peer websites by an Internet address associated with the parish office, said Jack Smith, diocesan spokesman.
Smith said Independence police alerted diocesan officials on Wednesday that the case was closed after federal computer forensic investigators did not find any pornographic material.
The parish office had an insecure Wi-Fi connection, which meant the downloads could have been made by a parish office computer or by someone nearby. The downloads occurred between 6:30 and 7:30 a.m. on Feb. 5, Smith said.
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