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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Nov 20, 2024

A Chattanooga attorney has been accused of repeatedly sending pornographic videos that involved child and animal abuse, the Chattanooga Times Press reports. Patrick Bryant Hawley has been charged federally with sexual exploitation of children, animal crushing, coercion, enticement, and the receipt, possession and distribution of child pornography. Hawley is expected to be arraigned Nov. 22 in Chattanooga's federal court according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Tennessee.