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   From: raperthomas@sjrb.ca   
      
   A Vancouver man caught with thousands of child rape photos on a   
   computer hidden in a secret room is likely headed to federal   
   prison Thursday.   
      
   Having since pleaded guilty, Kenneth E. Smith had been   
   collecting child porn for 12 years when the FBI came calling in   
   July 2013. Smith had been caught sharing child pornography   
   online and subsequently found to have hundreds of images showing   
   toddlers and older children being sexually abused.   
      
   Asking that he be sentenced to an eight-year prison term,   
   federal prosecutors note Smith failed a lie detector test when   
   asked whether he personally sexually abused children. He also   
   refused to undergo a more thorough examination of his sexual   
   history following his guilty plea.   
      
   Facing investigators in his Clark County home, Smith tried to   
   minimize his conduct by claiming he’d downloaded photos of older   
   children while distraught following a breakup, Assistant U.S.   
   Attorney Marci Ellsworth said in court papers.   
      
   What investigators found, though, were more than 8,000 files   
   showing children of all ages being raped and abused.   
      
   Smith’s “actions contributed to the demand for these horrific   
   images of child abuse,” Ellsworth said in court papers. “Every   
   participant in the chain – producer, distributor, consumer –   
   sustains the market for these images, and each victim, whether   
   identified or not, suffers not only when an image of him or her   
   is created, but each and every time an image of him or her is   
   viewed.”   
      
   According to court filings, Smith went to extraordinary lengths   
   to hide his collection.   
      
   The computer was hidden on the second floor of an outbuilding on   
   his property. To get there, investigators had to open a hidden   
   elevator; the switch, it turned out, was disguised as a glue can.   
      
   Once inside, the tiny elevator took agents to a room packed with   
   marijuana plants. The PC was doing double duty as a child   
   pornography warehouse and controller for the marijuana-grow   
   sprinkler system.   
      
   Arrested then, Smith pleaded guilty to possession and   
   distribution of child pornography. He was free on bond prior to   
   Thursday’s sentencing hearing before U.S. District Judge   
   Benjamin Settle at the Tacoma federal courthouse.   
      
   http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Hidden-elevator-led-   
   police-to-child-porn-5492849.php#photo-6330368   
      
       
      
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