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   CHICAGO (November 20, 1998 12:21 p.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com)
   -- A U.S. Senate employee in town for a computer conference has been
   charged with sending child pornography online in a sting by police.
   
   Police say Richard Barth, 58, thought he was having sexually explicit
   online conversations with a 15-year-old girl, but he was really
   conversing with a police officer.
   
   Barth was charged with two counts of disseminating child pornography
   after he was accused of sending 13 pornographic images to the officer
   through electronic mail.
   
   According to police, Barth admitted sending messages from his office
   and his home, which means he could face federal charges. Two computers
   were seized from Barth's home and investigators were seeking his
   office computer, Cook County Sheriff Michael Sheahan said.
   
   Barth, of Silver Springs, Md., works as a computer systems manager on
   the Senate's millennium project. He was arrested in his hotel room
   Tuesday night.