Australian Gay-Marriage Crusader Was Fugitive Wanted on Kiddie Porn Charge

RSM: Matthew Hynd, who made headlines in Australia as a supporter of gay marriage, was a fugitive from justice, wanted in the United States on child pornography charges.

Hynd was sentenced to more than six years in federal prison earlier this month, after having been deported last year from Australia, where he had started a business and, along with his Pakistani boyfriend, campaigned for gay rights.

“In 2010, while Hynd was living and working in Albany, FBI Agents executed a search warrant on his home, after Hynd distributed child pornography images over the Internet,” the U.S. Department of Justice said in a press release. “Agents found hundreds of images of child pornography on Hynd’s computers. Hynd then fled the United States and returned to his native Australia.”  more