Green Bay man arrested on suspicion of child porn possession

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) - Detectives say they found provocatively posed dolls and displays of children's underwear while searching a Green Bay home for child pornography.

Investigators seized computer hard drives during the Monday search that contained about 7,000 images of child porn, including some of victims who appeared to be as young as 3 months old, authorities said.

The man "obviously has some kind of psychosis," Brown County Sheriff John Gossage told Press-Gazette Media (http://gbpg.net/1Ipqgww ).

District Attorney David Lasee said he'll file charges Wednesday detailing the "bizarre environment" investigators found. The prosecutor said he expects to charge the suspect - who was jailed with bond set at $50,000 - with multiple counts related to child pornography that can carry 40-year prison sentences.

Sheriff's Capt. David Konrath said the suspect lives with his wife, but that she isn't considered a suspect herself and may not have known about the materials in the home's basement. It did not appear that the suspect had been sharing child pornography with others, Konrath added.

Detectives don't know if the children in the photos have any connections to the Green Bay area.

"These kids are so young that it may be impossible to identify them," Lt. Jim Valley of the sheriff's department said.

Authorities are reviewing the images to try to identify the victims and to determine where the photos were taken.

"Someone like this is victimizing each child every time any person looks at the image," Valley said.

Valley said authorities were notified after someone at Microsoft Corp. noticed something suspicious. The company notified the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which channeled the information to the Wisconsin Department of Justice and local investigators.

Gossage said the arrest should serve as a warning to families.

"Whatever fetishes he has, it brings to light the fact that there are people out there on the Internet, accessing sites, exchanging information," the sheriff said. "It goes to Internet precautions. We try to impress that on the kids: You don't know who you're talking to."

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