Interesting comment: "We authenticated the diary before we acted on it,"
said Irvine police Sgt. Tom Little.


http://ocregister.com/news/kline00217cci4.shtml

Police analyze diary from judge's computer

February 17, 2002

By BILL RAMS and
ALDRIN BROWN
The Orange County Register

Police investigators are analyzing a document written in diary form that
suggests a local judge accused of child molestation may have used his
position as a Little League umpire to ogle dozens of underage boys and
to get close to one boy to whom he was attracted.

The document, recovered by police from the computer of Orange County
Superior Court Judge Ronald C. Kline, contains no mention of sexual
contact with the underage boys.

But detectives are scouring the document's seemingly detailed accounts
of meetings and conversations with boys for evidence of potential
crimes.

"We authenticated the diary before we acted on it," said Irvine police
Sgt. Tom Little. "We made sure it wasn't authored by somebody out to
discredit the judge."

Kline, 61, is under house arrest awaiting trial on federal charges of
possessing child pornography and on state charges of allegedly molesting
a boy nearly 25 years ago, before he was a judge.
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