INDEPENDENCE, Kentucky (AP) - A 15-year-old boy was charged with 692 felony counts of distributing child pornography on a Web site he operated from his parents’ home.
The boy, who has no criminal record, faces up to 45 days in jail for each count if convicted. He is set to go to trial Feb. 22.
“It operated like a bulletin board where they’d (site visitors would) put some in and take some out,” Kenton County Attorney Garry Edmondson said Wednesday. “It’s just very disturbing to see this.”
Police said the FBI began investigating the boy in July, after a high-traffic child pornography site was discovered operating in the area, just south of Cincinnati. A computer in the boy’s home was confiscated in November.
Kenton County Assistant Police Chief Lt. Col. Ed Butler said there is no evidence the teen developed the material used on the Web site. The site included hundreds of images of infants, children and animals in sex acts.