A CHILDREN’S author was sentenced to six years jail after pleading guilty at an Oregon court to two counts of possessing child pornography.
Kevin Patrick Bath, 51, was sentenced in a plea deal at Oregon District Court for actively trading images of child pornography with at least two different collectors in Washington and Ohio, according to a statement from the Federal Bureau of Investigation Portland.
The author, who wrote The Secret of Castle Cant and Escape from Castle Cant under the name of K.P. Bath, will serve six years prison followed by a five-year term of supervised release. He will be registered as a sex offender upon his release.
Bath was charged after police found a large collection of still images and video clips depicting child pornography at his North Portland, Oregon, residence in June 2008.
hey found images and videos depicting sadistic conduct, rape, sodomy, and bestiality on Bath’s computer and data storage media.
“Child pornography indelibly victimises our kids,” US Attorney Dwight Holton said in a statement.
“It is shocking that a children’s author would contribute to the trauma these kids endure – both physical and emotional trauma from the sexual abuse itself, and psychological trauma from knowing that images of that abuse are circulating on the internet – by trading in such images.”
Leigh Winchell, special agent in charge of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations in Portland, said: “This sentence should serve as a sobering reminder about the consequences facing those who use the internet to trade and collect child pornography.”
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