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Edgerton man gets month in jail for child porn
An Edgerton man was sentenced Wednesday to 30 days in jail and six years probation for possessing child pornography on his computer.
Eric Johnson, 37, faced a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison.
Judge Stuart Schwartz accepted the recommendation of Assistant District Attorney Shelly Rusch for a much more lenient sentence for Johnson, who cooperated with the investigation and had no previous criminal record.
According to the criminal complaint, on Aug. 13, 2007, David Matthews, a special agent with the Wisconsin Division of Criminal Investigation, used special software to identify child pornography on a home computer with a Wisconsin IP address. Matthews obtained a subpoena for subscriber information from Charter Communications that ultimately identified Johnson as the owner of the computer.
A search warrant was then executed at
Johnson's residence on Jan. 9. Agents found numerous files
containing child pornography on the hard drive of his computer, the
most extreme of which portrayed a girl believed to be 4 to 6 in
age.
