Note: Senator’s ex-aide apologized for child porn

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WASHINGTON (AP) — A former aide to U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander who killed himself last week as he awaited trial on child pornography charges wrote in a letter before his death that he “should have known better” than to view the images and said his actions had wounded his family and disappointed his former boss and colleagues.

Ryan Loskarn hanged himself in the basement of his parents’ Maryland home, where a judge had permitted him to live under electronic monitoring pending trial.

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