Newsom's 'digital equity' plan allows death-row inmates to watch porn and groom children online, report finds

An infamous serial murderer and rapist said that taxpayer-funded digital tablets allowed him to watch pornography and receive a topless photo from a 22-year-old German psychology student.

That's just one account in a City Journal investigation into a "digital equity" program pushed by Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom to ensure prisoners had access to the Bible. And also porn.

Amador told the Journal that he alternates between watching short clips of his 'family at the beach' and pornography delivered in 30-second clips.

Officials told the Journal that the tablets were "tightly controlled education tools" to provide inmates "access to the Bible, education, and re-entry resources that actually reduce crime."

The investigation found dozens of death-row inmates who said the tablets allowed them access to pornography as well as sexually explicit conversations.

The program under the Newsom administration tossed $189 million of taxpayer funds to ensure criminals had free access to porn and the Bible online.

Robert Maury, an infamous rapist and serial murderer from the 1980s, did not mention the Bible but told the Journal that a German student sent him topless photos in the hope that he would share his story with her for a psychology class project.

Maury was known as the "tipster killer" because he would call a crime tip line and give law enforcement authorities tips about his crimes before he was captured.

Another serial killer named Samuel Amador told the Journal that he alternates between watching short clips of his "family at the beach" and pornography delivered in 30-second clips.

He said guards try to stop sexually explicit texts when they see them but that inmates figure out how to "get around their bulls**t."

One inmate named Nathaniel Ray Diaz allegedly used a tablet to talk with a girl for hours and sexually exploit her. Diaz is facing new charges related to the alleged child exploitation and was already in Avenal State Prison for sex crimes against a 12-year-old girl.

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Douglas Eckenrod, a former California parole operations director, told the Journal the Diaz case was just the tip of the iceberg.

"I would bet my pension that there's a vast amount of childhood pornography on the tablets," Eckenrod said. "There are probably several thousand [children] that are currently being groomed."

He went on to say that California is simply empowering criminals to groom more victims through the tablets.

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