Urbana man arrested on child porn charges
Wed, 08/18/2010 - 10:04am | Mary Schenk
URBANA – A 54-year-old Urbana man has been arrested for possession and distribution of child pornography in that city.
Urbana police Sgt. Dan Morgan said William M. McDonald, of the 900 block of Wabash Avenue, was arrested at his home Tuesday after police served a search warrant and seized his computer.
Morgan said investigator Tim McNaught, the department's school resource officer, is a member of an attorney general's task force on child pornography. In that role, he has been investigating McDonald for a couple of months.
Morgan was reticent to share the method by which police uncover potential suspects but said police "have access to programs that help them identify where child porn is."
"People would be surprised at how accessible it is if you know where to look and how many people are accessing it," Morgan said.
Morgan said McNaught found that McDonald was allegedly accessing movies of children as young as 3 to 6 years old engaging in sexual acts with adults, other children and animals. Morgan said police do not believe there are any local victims but said they have more investigative work to do with computer equipment and pornographic images involving children that were taken from McDonald's home.
McDonald is expected to be arraigned Wednesday afternoon on Class X felony charges, which carry penalties ranging from six to 30 years upon conviction and fines ranging from $2,000 to $100,000.
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Or at least that's what the Shawshank Redemption taught me.
The newer ones do cause some do gooder groups want to protect their rights. Seems like a cruel joke on the rest of society don't it?