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Thomas Markle, the estranged father of Meghan Markle, was sent back to jail on Tuesday, November 10, after cutting off an electronic ankle monitor he was ordered to wear as a condition of home confinement.
Thomas Markle, 82, had been arrested and charged on Friday with a single federal count of possessing child s£xual abus£ material, including two explicit photographs of himself posed with an undressed underage girl and other images of him with children in various stages of undress.
According to an FBI affidavit filed in court as part of the criminal complaint lodged against him, one of the photos showed an unclad girl in a room that appears to be part of a motel chain in the Philippines, where Thomaz Markle previously resided and where authorities initiated an investigation of him last month.
The affidavit says federal agents seized the material in question, including photographic slides, film negatives and books, from two storage units Markle had rented in Los Angeles since 2008.
Commenting on the case on Friday, FBI Director Kash Patel said Markle "targeted innocent children and sought to steal their innocence through his criminal actions."
Markle, who most recently resided at an assisted-living facility in Lakeland, Florida, near Tampa, denied possessing s£xually explicit photos of children when such allegations first surfaced, telling the Daily Mail they were untrue and "sick lies."
No plea was entered during Markle's initial court hearing last Friday, Novmber 6, and the judge permitted him to be released from custody on condition that he submit to home detention and the wearing of an electronic monitoring device.
But federal prosecutors said they asked the judge to revoke home-release and keep him locked up pending trial after he was found to have cut the ankle bracelet off early Monday morning, November 9.
Agreeing that Markle's housing situation had "become untenable," Griffin granted prosecutors' request. Markle was then re-arrested and returned to federal custody, according to the US Attorney's Office in Los Angeles, where the case against him was brought.
The judge stipulated that Markle was to be kept in a detention facility "separate, to the extent practicable, from" the general jail population. She also ordered Markle to undergo a "prompt medical evaluation."
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