A Union County man charged earlier this week with possession of kid pornography was within the means of downloading unlawful photographs when investigators entered his dwelling with a search warrant, charging paperwork allege.
Matthew T. Williams, 43, Westfield, was arrested Wednesday after investigators mentioned they linked as much as 40 little one porn movies to the IP tackle of his laptop within the dwelling the place he lived alone, in response to the U.S. Division of Homeland Safety.
The movies have been allegedly downloaded over a number of months starting in February, in response to a felony criticism filed in U.S. District Courtroom in Newark.
Investigators on Wednesday obtained a search warrant for Williams’ dwelling and seized, amongst different issues, a laptop computer and an exterior exhausting drive, in response to the criticism.
“On the time of the search, a peer-to-peer software program utility program was open on the seized laptop and was downloading little one pornography,” the criticism states.
A evaluate of the exterior exhausting drive – which was plugged into the laptop computer – allegedly revealed 40 little one porn movies, in response to the criticism.
Williams voluntarily advised investigators “that he was the only real occupant of the residence and the only real proprietor and consumer of the seized laptop,” the criticism states.
Homeland Safety investigators charged Williams below federal legislation partly as a result of the video recordsdata “traveled in interstate commerce” and have been produced utilizing supplies that have been shipped from out of state, alleges the criticism.
Williams made an preliminary look on Wednesday earlier than U.S. Justice of the Peace Choose James B. Clark III in Newark federal courtroom and was launched on $100,000 unsecured bond, in response to U.S. Lawyer Philip R. Sellinger.
Sellinger mentioned in an announcement that Williams had beforehand been convicted of sexual misconduct in New York.
Charging paperwork state Williams was convicted in Virgil City Courtroom, Cortland County, New York, of costs associated to “aggravated sexual abuse, sexual abuse, or abusive sexual conduct involving a minor or ward.”
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