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Tuesday, July 13, 2010 | 1:26 p.m.
Jonathon Kohler
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A 28-year-old Henderson man accused of possessing and distributing child pornography will plead guilty to two counts of possessing child porn as part of a deal with prosecutors, the man's attorney said today.
Jonathon Kohler was arrested June 16 in connection with 10 counts of distributing pornography of a minor and 10 counts of possession of child pornography, all felonies.
Kohler's arraignment had been scheduled for today but was delayed until Thursday in Clark County District Court, attorney Frank Cremen said. Kohler could face up to six years in prison for each count.
Police detectives noticed Kohler’s alleged involvement with child porn in January when they came across an Internet IP address that was sharing numerous file names indicative of child porn on the Gnutella file-sharing network, authorities said.
They traced the IP address to Kohler, who police say was using his home computer in the 3200 block of Oil Painting Walk.
Kohler spoke with detectives and admitted to downloading the child porn onto his computer. He told officers that his age preference was girls between the ages of 14 and 16, although an analysis of the computer showed many girls were much younger, according to the arrest report.
Police said Kohler told detectives he had been viewing child porn for a decade. Kohler lived in the home with his wife, who police say didn't know about the child porn.
He is being held in the Clark County Detention Center without bail.
guy needs help, not jail.
I agree he needs help, not jail. The kind of help I have in mind would involve a firing squad or lethal injection. Remember that he is putting money into the pockets of those who produce child porn, which means he is responding for children being horribly exploited. So even if he never personally touched a child (doubtful, but possible), he has enabled horrific abuse.
Yes, he needs help indeed. I would like to offer help by cutting off his arms, legs, and genitals. Then and only then would it be safe to let him out of jail.
tom_duh
Sure he does need help. Counseling, rehab etc... However for one its a fact that like drug and alcohol addicts; pedophiles are never cured and always "recovering". This means you'll never take away the urge or want for child porn only hope to contain it. I'm not willing to bet the safety of any child in hopes he can "contain" himself.
Tax money wasted on his rehab could go to better use helping educate those same kids he abused, either directly or by way of being part of the demand for their abuse. A .50 bullet is what guys like this should get. Instead the ACLU gets $300,000 over a lawsuit that prisoners like this douche didnt receive access to proper medical care. How bout those kids that never will and didnt commit a crime?
According to Sharron Angle this pervert deserves a daily spa treatment including complementary full-body massage and relaxing warm oil-immersion.
Sweet.
Cineralladream is ABSOLUTELY right...this is NOT a victimless crime.
Last Throes wrote:
"According to Sharron Angle this pervert deserves a daily spa treatment including complementary full-body massage and relaxing warm oil-immersion."
According to Harry Reid this pervert is of no consequence to him. Just like the rest of Nevadans.
He will get plenty of help from his inmates. No need to worry Tom.
"Remember that he is putting money into the pockets of those who produce child porn . . . he has enabled horrific abuse."
manoflogos -- thanx for showing how clueless you and your ilk really are. The articles on this man explains he got the contraband from Gnutella, a file-sharing/peer-to-peer network. It's free.
Mr. Kohler enabled nothing but something for this lynch mob to scream about. Get a grip, y'all!
"...but a little girl's nod, if it should so happen, will move him..." -- Epictetus "Discourses" (A.C.E 108)
cinderelladream, Babyboomer -- I would seriously like to see your explanation of how looking at pictures downloaded from public forums victimizes ANYONE. Other than in your imaginations, and some truly perverse, blatantly unConstitutional laws passed only to feed this police state, Mr. Kohler is no criminal. Apart from justifying their budgets the police who went after this man had no legitimate reason for even investigating him.
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." -- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Isaac H Tiffany (1819)
Could someone please provide a link to some professional child porn -- so we all could obtain a visual as to what we shouldn't see?
Thanks
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Harley -- no visuals, but there's a good article about it @ http://reason.com/blog/2009/05/04/grandm...
Thanks Killer -- still have no idea what others consider to be art, beauty and where their "inappropriate" lines are drawn -- as your reference indicated it's all ambiguous and publicly terrorizing -- hence, how can one be expected to comply with something those of the legal profession differ on what is "acceptable"?
Perhaps the Sun could educate the child-porn ignorant public with samples instead of those made into examples?
Is National Geographic still in publication?
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Harley -- you raised good points apart from the "off with his head" shouts so prevalent here.
This entire issue is scary as an exercise of "might makes right" -- a blatantly unConstitutional display of police power. For perspective there's "The Blurry Boundaries of Child Porn" @ http://reason.com/archives/2009/06/11/th...
That article's #2 especially shows how these kinds of prosecutions are actually proof the U.S. prosecutes thoughtcrime.
There's also a good column about the Arizona man who was punished more severely for looking at pictures of sexually abused children than he would have been for committing an actual sexual assault on a child @ http://reason.com/archives/2007/03/07/to...
What the herd fails to understand is those of who actively question what the cops are up to is what real citizens do.
"...how little does the common herd know of the nature of right and truth." - Socrates in Plato's "Euthyphro" (399 B.C.E.?)
Killer -- as long as there are juries, "the people" hold the power -- laws are nothing but words to be debated.
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"manoflogos -- thanx for showing how clueless you and your ilk really are. The articles on this man explains he got the contraband from Gnutella, a file-sharing/peer-to-peer network. It's free."
Wow, want to talk about clueless... It had to come from somewhere originally. It didn't just magically come into existence.