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An inmate being held on child pornography charges was found beaten to death Thursday in Orange, marking the first inmate slaying in a jail in Orange County in two decades, authorities said. The inmate, John Chamberlain, 41, a Mission Viejo computer technician who was arrested last month, was severely kicked in the jail showers and then dragged - apparently unnoticed by guards - to his cell, where he was attacked again and left for dead. The episode lasted 15 to 30 minutes, until an inmate alerted guards.<br>
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Chamberlain was taken to UCI Medical Center in Orange about 6:30 p.m., where he died an hour later, said Jim Amormino, an Orange County Sheriff's Department spokesman. "The inmate was dragged about 20 feet from the showers to his cell... There are blind spots from the guard station," Amormino said.<br>
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<i>source: Article 'O.C. Jail Inmate Beaten to Death' by Garrett Therolf; www.latimes.com/news/ printedition/california/la- me-inmate7oct07,1,627 4601.story?coll=la-headlines- pe-california&ctrack=1&cset=true; 7 October 2006</i>

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