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Jack Hancock (Louisville, Kentucky).
A Kentucky man brought his computer to some tech workers for help, but by doing so, revealed that he had a cache of child sexual abuse material, according to cops in the Louisville-area city of St. Matthews.
Jack Hancock, 78, faces a slew of charges for possessing matter portraying sexual performance by a minor under 12.
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According to the citation obtained by Law&Crime, he took his computer on Aug. 28 to the Best Buy on Shelbyville Road to move data to an external drive, officers say. It allegedly turned out that the data itself was a crime, however. Computer techs, known at Best Buy as the Geek Squad, were doing a peer review to make sure all the files were moved and witnessed what they thought was child sexual abuse material, officers said. They reached out to cops.
“Upon further examination, hundreds of images of children under the age of 12 engaged in sex acts with adults was located,” police said.
When officers executed a search warrant at Hancock’s home in the city of Taylorsville, he was still engaging in the illicit behavior, police said.
“At the time of the search warrant, the suspect was actively downloading CSAM onto his computer,” they wrote.
Hancock allegedly admitted post-Miranda to knowingly having and viewing this abuse material.
“Suspect further admitted to having over 300 images in his possession,” officers wrote.
A preliminary hearing is set for Oct. 23.
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