Computer tech accused of trying to blackmail man over child porn
10/01/2015 12:00 pm PDT
via WDAF:
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- (KDAF) -- A computer technician has been accused of attempted blackmail after he allegedly threatened to expose an elderly man as a pedophile, back in May and June of last year.
On Monday, Richard Harrison, a 43-year-old computer technician, was charged with attempted theft by coercion and failure to report a child being filmed in a sex act, after he allegedly discovered child pornography while working on a computer owned by 79-year-old Richard Rasmussen, of Parkville, Mo. According to court documents, Harrison sent threatening letters to Rasmussen demanding money in exchange for his silence.
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