FRANKLIN COUNTY, Ohio -- Officials Thursday released court files on a Dublin man who pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography.
NBC 4 reported with the FAST FACTS.
Ian M. Kimmel pleaded guilty to one count of knowingly possessing child pornography in interstate commerce. He acknowledged liability for the one count of forfeiture.
He pleaded in the United States District Court.
FBI agents found Kimmel when they traced child pornography back to his Internet Service Provider and his IP address in September 2008.
Special agents and task force officers from the FBI Cyber Crimes Task Force executed a search warrant at Kimmel’s Dublin home.
Numerous computers were seized during the execution of the search warrant and forensic reviews conducted on each. A forensic review on a MAC Notebook computer registered to Kimmel revealed more than 150 images of child pornography images.
The child pornography images found on Kimmel’s computer were submitted to the National Center For Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), which compared the images to its national database and determined that several of the juveniles depicted in the images were “known victims” who had previously been identified by law enforcement and confirmed to have been juveniles at the time the images were produced.
The NCMEC analysis also revealed several of the images of child pornography had been produced outside the state of Ohio and thus the images had traveled in interstate to be present on Kimmel’s computer.
Kimmel’s maximum sentence is 10 year in prison, $250,000 fine and supervised release for a minimum of five years to a maximum term of life.
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