Justice Dept. employee charged in child pornography case
CBS News • • nation
Key Points:
- Timothy Parsons, a longtime legal staffer at the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington, D.C., has been arrested and charged with child pornography offenses in Maryland, where he resides.
- An FBI task force searched Parsons' Bethesda home and found evidence that he received and responded to child sex abuse material, including sexually charged messages, though Parsons claimed to have deleted the content.
- Parsons' case was linked to a 2025 investigation into Victor Blythe, a former child psychotherapist charged with related offenses, with court documents indicating the images Parsons received matched those in Blythe's case.
- Parsons is currently on leave from the Justice Department, which stated disciplinary action will be taken; he has not yet entered a plea and
