Louisville, Kentucky - Prosecutors say man shopped for porn at library
Whas11.com, 01/18/07
Louisville, KY -- A local man is facing at least five years in prison after pleading guilty to child pornography charges.
This case began back in 2005 with a tip from Yahoo to U.S. postal inspectors. It ends with Michael Davis is headed to prison, caught ordering kiddie porn in a very public place. Federal authorities believe in a place of knowledge and learning, Davis was up to no good.
“It's unbelievable that people still fall for ordering stuff like this on the Internet,” says Postal Inspector Lisa Fitzpatrick. “We're not going to tolerate it.”
The 49-year-old Louisville man recently pleaded guilty to one count each of receiving and possessing child pornography, material the feds say he ordered on a computer at the Louisville Free Public Library.
“So eventually the mail is used and that's where we come in and investigate,” says Fitzpatrick.
The U.S. attorney's office says Davis’s order, placed in December of 2005, was delivered to an address in Old Louisville. Authorities say inside the house, they found pornographic DVDs and four photo albums filled with images of boys as young as 5 -- some of them engaged in sex acts. “If he's conducting an illegal business in the library -- he's out of here.”
Craig Buthod, the chief of Louisville’s public libraries, says there's filtering software in every library on all 450 computers. “SurfWatch, the company we buy it from, has 60 people searching for this kind of illegal material,” says Buthod.
There's no evidence Michael Davis was using library computers to look at porn -- just order it. Yet authorities say he still learned a hard lesson here.
“They caught him, they arrested him,” says Buthod. “He's going to prison. The system worked.”
Davis is supposed to be sentenced in April. The minimum sentence, according to the law, is five years in prison.
Web story produced by Jay Ditzer.
Retrieved January 19, 2007 from http://www.whas11.com/
Louisville, KY -- A local man is facing at least five years in prison after pleading guilty to child pornography charges.
This case began back in 2005 with a tip from Yahoo to U.S. postal inspectors. It ends with Michael Davis is headed to prison, caught ordering kiddie porn in a very public place. Federal authorities believe in a place of knowledge and learning, Davis was up to no good.
“It's unbelievable that people still fall for ordering stuff like this on the Internet,” says Postal Inspector Lisa Fitzpatrick. “We're not going to tolerate it.”
The 49-year-old Louisville man recently pleaded guilty to one count each of receiving and possessing child pornography, material the feds say he ordered on a computer at the Louisville Free Public Library.
“So eventually the mail is used and that's where we come in and investigate,” says Fitzpatrick.
The U.S. attorney's office says Davis’s order, placed in December of 2005, was delivered to an address in Old Louisville. Authorities say inside the house, they found pornographic DVDs and four photo albums filled with images of boys as young as 5 -- some of them engaged in sex acts. “If he's conducting an illegal business in the library -- he's out of here.”
Craig Buthod, the chief of Louisville’s public libraries, says there's filtering software in every library on all 450 computers. “SurfWatch, the company we buy it from, has 60 people searching for this kind of illegal material,” says Buthod.
There's no evidence Michael Davis was using library computers to look at porn -- just order it. Yet authorities say he still learned a hard lesson here.
“They caught him, they arrested him,” says Buthod. “He's going to prison. The system worked.”
Davis is supposed to be sentenced in April. The minimum sentence, according to the law, is five years in prison.
Web story produced by Jay Ditzer.
Retrieved January 19, 2007 from http://www.whas11.com/