Ex–Washington Post Video Editor Pleads Guilty to Child Pornography Possession
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Former Washington Post deputy director of video Thomas LeGro, 48, has pleaded guilty in federal court in Washington, D.C., to one count of possessing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office announced Friday. LeGro was arrested in June 2025 after FBI agents executed a search warrant at his home, where they found fractured pieces of a hard drive hidden under a basement rug and, on his laptop, a folder containing 11 videos depicting adult men sexually abusing prepubescent children. The case was investigated by the FBI Washington Field Office’s Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force, underscoring how federal child‑exploitation units are still primarily catching offenders through local device searches rather than dark‑web stings alone. The Washington Post initially placed LeGro on leave after his arrest and has since severed ties with him. LeGro, an award‑winning journalist who shared in the paper’s 2018 Pulitzer Prize for reporting on allegations against Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, is scheduled to be sentenced on September 3, 2026.