Man arrested after using child porn as screensaver

[Jack Bando]

from ABC News


PUNTA GORDA: An investigation into a suspicious death led to a child porn arrest. Punta Gorda Police charged 18-year-old John Patrick Johnson with 50 counts of possession of child pornography.

On July 25, officers went to Johnson's home on North Sea Grape Drive to investigate a suspicious death. The death has since been ruled an accident, but while detectives were in the home they noticed a pornographic image on the screen of Johnson's computer.

Investigators say the image showed an underage female in a sexually suggestive pose.

Detectives immediately got a search warrant and seized Johnson's computer. After combing over files on the hard drive for almost a month, investigators found 50 child pornography movies and pictures.

"It was surprising to find it to begin with, but the amount that was found is the most surprising," said Jason Ciaschini of the Punta Gorda Police Department.

Wednesday morning, officers went to Johnson's home and arrested him. He is being held in the Charlotte County Jail on $125,000 bond.

Amazingly, police say Johnson claimed to be trying to set up pedophiles in a personal sting operation.

Neighbors highly doubt that.

"He was just a little too close. He liked our kids a lot and said 'I'm watching your children play,'" said Teya Asker.

The search of Johnson's computer continues and police say more charges could be filed.

Nobody answered the door at Johnson's home Wednesday and Johnson declined our request for a jailhouse interview.

Police are still counting the number of porn files on his hard drive. His last words before getting booked were "I told you I had a lot on there."

[AntonHeat]

ok.. thats pretty [censored] up right there...

[321Mike]

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After combing over files on the hard drive for almost a month, investigators found 50 child pornography movies and pictures.


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Police are still counting the number of porn files on his hard drive. His last words before getting booked were "I told you I had a lot on there."

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It took them a month to find 50 files? That must be a typo, right? Is that supposed to be 50,000? If he was using it as his screensaver they couldn't be too well hidden.

[SNOWBALL]

I don't think it's right to put this guy in jail over this. Also, this doesn't belong in LOL.

[Hawklet]

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I don't think it's right to put this guy in jail over this. Also, this doesn't belong in LOL.

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You mean he didn't break the law or that the law is wrong?

Also I think news reports fit here.

[Jack Bando]

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I don't think it's right to put this guy in jail over this. Also, this doesn't belong in LOL.

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He had child porn, which means at best he DLed it off the internet. Which means he shared it as well, and sharing is not caring in this case.

And this belongs in LoL, his stupidity to have his kiddie porn screensaver on and answer the knock on his door from the police is funny.

[Peter666]

This thread is useless without pics.

[jaydub]

Peter,

Always remember down, not across.

Drip, drip bitch.

J

[Bart$impson]

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Investigators say the image showed an underage female in a sexually suggestive pose.

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This seems like too little evidence to seize a computer from a person who isn't already under any type of investigation for a similar crime.

[LionelHutz00]

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This seems like too little evidence to seize a computer from a person who isn't already under any type of investigation for a similar crime.

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yeah, maybe it was his slutty niece.

also, how do they tell the difference between legal porn and kiddie porn? do they just look at a picture and say "this girl looks young." if i have some porn flicks on my computer with bitches like gauge and taylor rain, would a cop think it's kiddie porn?