Former Naperville man arrested on porn charges
From The Daily Herald (online). By Amy Boerema. aboerema@dailyherald.com. 06/12/07
A former Naperville, Illinois man is facing criminal charges after authorities found more than 100 images of child pornography on his computer, police said Monday.
Anthony S. Kershaw, 30, who moved downstate in the past few months, was arrested Friday by Maracoupin County Sheriff’s Department officials at the request of Naperville police.
Kershaw, who lives in Virden, a small town between Springfield and St. Louis, was charged with six counts of child pornography, officials said.
After his arrest, which came without incident, he was transferred from Maracoupin County to Naperville.
He is being held on $500,000 bond at the DuPage County jail in Wheaton, authorities said. An arraignment is set for July 10.
On Feb. 28, Naperville police said they received a cyber tip from the Illinois Crimes Against Children Task Force that MySpace.com had discovered a “predator-type account,” authorities said.
A subsequent investigation traced the account’s Internet protocol addresses to a home in the 1500 block of Westminster Drive in Naperville, officials said.
The U.S. Secret Service aided in interviews and a forensic examination of a computer at the site, which produced the pornographic images, authorities said.
Naperville Lt. Dave Hoffman said there’s no evidence Kershaw had physical contact with any minors.
He was, however, involved with “exchanging photos,” Hoffman said, though he would not say with whom.
The case was unusual, Hoffman said, because of the multiple agencies involved and that MySpace first alerted the state task force.
Child pornography cases often arise after someone else has stumbled onto explicit images or the person involved is linked to another crime, he said.
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A former Naperville, Illinois man is facing criminal charges after authorities found more than 100 images of child pornography on his computer, police said Monday.
Anthony S. Kershaw, 30, who moved downstate in the past few months, was arrested Friday by Maracoupin County Sheriff’s Department officials at the request of Naperville police.
Kershaw, who lives in Virden, a small town between Springfield and St. Louis, was charged with six counts of child pornography, officials said.
After his arrest, which came without incident, he was transferred from Maracoupin County to Naperville.
He is being held on $500,000 bond at the DuPage County jail in Wheaton, authorities said. An arraignment is set for July 10.
On Feb. 28, Naperville police said they received a cyber tip from the Illinois Crimes Against Children Task Force that MySpace.com had discovered a “predator-type account,” authorities said.
A subsequent investigation traced the account’s Internet protocol addresses to a home in the 1500 block of Westminster Drive in Naperville, officials said.
The U.S. Secret Service aided in interviews and a forensic examination of a computer at the site, which produced the pornographic images, authorities said.
Naperville Lt. Dave Hoffman said there’s no evidence Kershaw had physical contact with any minors.
He was, however, involved with “exchanging photos,” Hoffman said, though he would not say with whom.
The case was unusual, Hoffman said, because of the multiple agencies involved and that MySpace first alerted the state task force.
Child pornography cases often arise after someone else has stumbled onto explicit images or the person involved is linked to another crime, he said.
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