Student to undergo evaluation for porn
While awaiting final sentencing, USU student John David Taylor will spend 90 days in the Utah State Prison undergoing a diagnostic evaluation including a psycho-sexual component.
Taylor, 18, was arrested Dec. 13, 2007, after USU police were served a search warrant and found numerous items of child pornography in his on-campus apartment room, said Capt. Steve Milne with the USU Police. USU police were contacted by a member of the New Hampshire Police Department, Internet Crimes Against Children section, who had posed as a 14-year-old boy for the investigation and received numerous pictures, live video feed and information from Taylor over the Internet, Milne said.
After being contacted by the detective and receiving CDs of the images, Milne said the police department requested a search warrant for the room in Moen Hall, where Taylor lived.
“Several thousand digital pictures of child pornography on compact discs and a laptop” were seized from Taylor’s room, Milne said.
Taylor was then charged with 10 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, a second degree felony, Milne said. Taylor could have been charged for each time a picture was sent over the Internet, but any number over 10 doesn’t really make a difference, Milne said.
Taylor later plead guilty to two of those charges.
On Monday, Taylor was sentenced to the Utah State Prison by Judge Clint S. Judkins in the First District Court, according to case minutes. Taylor will appear before Judkins again July 7 for final sentencing.
-alison.baugh@aggiemail.usu.edu