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From:
raperthomas@sjrb.ca
A Vancouver man caught with thousands of child rape photos on a
computer hidden in a secret room is likely headed to federal
prison Thursday.
Having since pleaded guilty, Kenneth E. Smith had been
collecting child porn for 12 years when the FBI came calling in
July 2013. Smith had been caught sharing child pornography
online and subsequently found to have hundreds of images showing
toddlers and older children being sexually abused.
Asking that he be sentenced to an eight-year prison term,
federal prosecutors note Smith failed a lie detector test when
asked whether he personally sexually abused children. He also
refused to undergo a more thorough examination of his sexual
history following his guilty plea.
Facing investigators in his Clark County home, Smith tried to
minimize his conduct by claiming he’d downloaded photos of older
children while distraught following a breakup, Assistant U.S.
Attorney Marci Ellsworth said in court papers.
What investigators found, though, were more than 8,000 files
showing children of all ages being raped and abused.
Smith’s “actions contributed to the demand for these horrific
images of child abuse,” Ellsworth said in court papers. “Every
participant in the chain – producer, distributor, consumer –
sustains the market for these images, and each victim, whether
identified or not, suffers not only when an image of him or her
is created, but each and every time an image of him or her is
viewed.”
According to court filings, Smith went to extraordinary lengths
to hide his collection.
The computer was hidden on the second floor of an outbuilding on
his property. To get there, investigators had to open a hidden
elevator; the switch, it turned out, was disguised as a glue can.
Once inside, the tiny elevator took agents to a room packed with
marijuana plants. The PC was doing double duty as a child
pornography warehouse and controller for the marijuana-grow
sprinkler system.
Arrested then, Smith pleaded guilty to possession and
distribution of child pornography. He was free on bond prior to
Thursday’s sentencing hearing before U.S. District Judge
Benjamin Settle at the Tacoma federal courthouse.
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Hidden-elevator-led- police-to-child-porn-5492849.php#photo-6330368
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