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   On 24 Nov 2021, Klaus  Schadenfreude    
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   > If we had more guns, this guy would be dog lunch   
      
   A California father who was arrested last week after authorities said they   
   had discovered more than 900 images of child sex abuse was also accused in   
   2018 of having "several hundred" similar images — but he has evaded   
   prosecution because of an alleged computer glitch, a law enforcement   
   official said.   
      
   Ryan Rovito, 34, of Redding, is accused of felony possession of child   
   pornography and surreptitious recording after his wife turned over to   
   police a camera she found hidden in the couple’s guest bathroom and a hard   
   drive.   
      
   In 2018, his previous wife also went to authorities and reported that he   
   had photos of “prepubescent juveniles” on his computer, said Sgt. Rob   
   Garnero, a Redding police spokesperson.   
      
   That case got lost in a new software system and didn't make it to the   
   Shasta County District Attorney's Office until November, a spokesperson   
   for the DA's office said.   
      
   The software "had some errors when it launched," Garnero said, adding that   
   the police department's records division made a note in its internal   
   software in December that the previous case had been lost.   
      
   When police filed the current case against Rovito, they found the earlier   
   one — "and that's when we discovered that case had never been completely   
   discovered when routed," Garnero said.   
      
   Ryan Rovito did not respond to multiple attempts to ask him for comment.   
   His lawyer, Timothy Prentiss, said Rovito maintains his innocence.   
      
   "From his perspective, he’s ready to challenge these allegations, and we’d   
   prefer to do that in the legal system," Prentiss said.   
      
   Prentiss said he was not familiar with the 2018 allegations.   
      
   Statute of limitations   
   Police said there was a three-year statute of limitations on the 2018   
   case, which had expired by the time the glitch was discovered. But the   
   Shasta County DA’s office said Thursday that the case falls under a 10-   
   year limit.   
      
   “We’re going to have to do some further investigation to review the case   
   before we make any filing decisions,” a spokesperson for the DA said.   
      
   Rovito’s ex-wife, who made the 2018 report, could not be reached for   
   comment by phone or email Thursday. Court records show she filed for   
   divorce in April 2019.   
      
   His current wife, Victoria Rovito, said that if officials had prosecuted   
   him in 2018, her family’s life might never have been “flipped upside down   
   and shattered.”   
      
   “I understand that mistakes happen, but these things cannot fall through   
   the cracks," Victoria Rovito, 33, said in an exclusive interview this   
   week. "It could've been somebody’s life. It could’ve been multiple   
   peoples’ lives."   
      
   She said that she didn't know about the previous allegations until police   
   told her this month and that she has since shared them with the National   
   Guard, with which she said Rovito has served.   
      
   A spokesperson for the National Guard directed questions to a spokesperson   
   for the California National Guard, who did not immediately respond to   
   questions Thursday.   
      
   'This situation did not seem fathomable'   
   When Victoria and Ryan Rovito met in 2021, he seemed like the ideal   
   partner: He got along well with her son, who’s now 3, and "would literally   
   do anything for me," she said. They married less than a year later, she   
   said, tying the knot in February 2022, and they welcomed a daughter seven   
   months ago.   
      
   "It just seemed picture perfect," she said.   
      
   So when she found a camera hidden in the guest bathroom of their home in   
   Redding, about 160 miles north of Sacramento, and was later told by   
   authorities that he was alleged to have had hundreds of child sex abuse   
   images on his hard drive, she was in "absolute shock."   
      
   “This situation did not seem fathomable to me prior to this," she said.   
      
   Redding police said that when Victoria Rovito first found the camera and   
   confronted her husband, Ryan Rovito “vowed to remove and discard it."   
      
   She discovered he had not thrown it away as promised, and on March 8, she   
   gave police the camera and the hard drive, “fearing Mr. Rovito had   
   nefariously recorded their young children using the bathroom," the police   
      
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