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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A federal grand jury indicted a former television weatherman and his business partner on child pornography charges Wednesday.
Matthew John Duhamel, 32, of Bountiful and Charles Philip Granere, 26, of Pleasant Grove each was indicted on three separate counts -- transporting child pornography, possession of child pornography and receipt of child pornography.
Duhamel and Granere are accused of operating several modeling Web sites showing elementary school-age girls wearing lingerie or less. Attorneys for the men contend that because the girls didn't appear nude in any of the photographs, the photos don't meet the federal definition of illegal sexually explicit conduct.
Duhamel bought time on KPNZ to host a late-night talk show until his arrest last Friday and was previously a meteorologist known as Matt McCoy on KUTV in Salt Lake City. He also worked as a meteorologist at KIDK in Idaho Falls, Idaho, from July 2002 to March 2003.
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