Iskandar Arifin, 49, of Meridian Township, was arraigned on six felonies in the 55th District Court on Friday and was released on a $75,000 personal recognizance bond.

The Ingham County Prosecutor’s Office announced in a news release that it has formally charged Iskandar Arifin, 49, from Meridian Township, with three counts of possessing “child sexually abusive material” and three charges related to using a computer to commit a crime.

“The investigation and prosecution of child pornography is a critical function of law enforcement, protecting children and communities,” said Ingham County Prosecutor John Dewane. “When a suspect is also an educator, our concern is heightened. I commend the Michigan State Police and the officers of the Computer Crimes Unit for their outstanding work on this investigation.”

The case was triggered on May 28, 2022.

“The Michigan State Police conducted an extensive and thorough investigation to include significant data review, evidence collection, and search warrants,” Dewane said in an email.

An arrest warrant was authorized for Arifin’s detention on the charges on Jan. 24, 2024. Those charges were not entered into the Law Enforcement Information Network and other records until Feb. 14, 2024. Arifin arranged for his arraignment on Feb. 28 — and set for March 1. He appeared by video before a magistrate for his arraignment.

The warrants for his arrest have been removed from law enforcement systems since his arraignment. While Arifin is an MSU professor, the alleged crimes occurred in Meridian Township, according to the prosecutor’s office.

Arifin is scheduled to appear in the 55th District Court, located in Mason, on Mar. 12 for a pre-conference probable cause hearing.

The news outlet has reached out to the university for comment and to find out if any action has been taken against Arifin. The story will be updated once this information is confirmed.

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Then there are all the reinterpretations of the law, or its attached definitions, that claim Congress, when it was adopting nondiscrimination legislation 50 years ago, intended for the word “sex” to mean “gender identity.”

But now there’s a new threat, and analysts charge it is worse than anything else that has come down recently.

“This is evil,” explained a report from Liberty Counsel, whose legal team has fought the LGBT ideology in many cases already.

The proposed law, in fact, would “protect” pedophiles, along with those people who claim to be one of the estimated 550 “philias.”

The problem is the pending “Equality Act,” which all Democrats in the House already have supported.

The report cites a case involving a man who calls himself a woman and was working in a childcare center.

He was caught molesting a baby girl, but plea-bargained result in the case included no jail, the report said.

“If HR 15, the so-called ‘Equality Act’ passes, we’ll see a lot more cases in which these confused abusers are given a virtual ‘pass’ on their sex crimes, because HR 15 seeks to protect more than 550 sexual deviancies, including pedophilia,” Liberty Counsel’s report said.

The report, from Liberty Counsel chief Mat Staver, explained, “The evil Dr. Alfred Kinsey of Indiana University’s Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction has caused incalculable damage.

“As you may recall, Table 34 of Kinsey’s 1948 book, Sex and the Human Male, documented the sexual abuse of children and babies as young as 5 months old. … Kinsey claimed that the screams of the abused children were ‘proof’ that children and even babies ‘enjoyed’ being sexually abused.”

He said that very concept is the foundation of HR 15, explaining, “This is evil.”

The report noted that the plan protects LGBT identities, but it is the “Q” identities that are the worst.

“Cosmopolitan states: ‘Queerness is an umbrella term that is both an orientation and a community. … The vagueness of the term is intentional — queer is an identity created for anyone outside of the heterosexual norm and meant to be inclusive,’” the report said.

The report warned HR 15 “creates a special class of rights for anyone who fits under the ‘LGBTQ’ class of people specified in the bill.”

The report suggests readers contact Congress and tell members to reject the idea.

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