Ex-lawmaker charged with child porn

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A former Maryland state delegate is facing federal child pornography charges and could serve up to 10 years in prison if convicted, prosecutors announced Tuesday.

Robert Alan McKee, a 59-year-old Republican from Washington County, had images documenting the sexual abuse of children on his computer in his Hagerstown home, prosecutors said. Federal prosecutors filed a “criminal information” charge against the former legislator. A criminal information charge has the advantage of being amended whereas an indictment does not.

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