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NATION'S LARGEST BOOKSELLER CHARGED WITH CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
February 18, 1998 Web posted at: 10:28 p.m. EST (0328 GMT)
MONTGOMERY, Alabama (AP) -- An Alabama grand jury indicted the nation's largest bookseller, Barnes & Noble, on child pornography charges involving the sale of books by noted photographers whose work includes pictures of nude children.
State Attorney General Bill Pryor said Wednesday he started the grand jury investigation after receiving complaints about two books being sold at Barnes & Noble stores in Alabama: "The Age of Innocence" by French photographer David Hamilton and "Radiant Identities" by San Francisco photographer Jock Sturges.
The indictment accuses the New York-based company of disseminating "obscene material containing visual reproduction of persons under 17 years of age involved in obscene acts."
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