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HOPKINSVILLE, Ky. – Hopkinsville Police arrested Charles William Harris, Jr., 40, Jan. 30 for possession of child pornography.
According to an arrest warrant, Harris possessed photographs of minors who were nude and performing sexually explicit acts.
The investigation began when a victim reported that in the summer of 2004, when he was 14 years old, Harris paid him money to pose for sexually explicit and nude photographs. The victim named other teenage boys who had been paid by Harris to do the same. He told police Harris had a storage unit where family members had seen nude photographs of minors.
After Harris stopped paying for the unit, it was foreclosed, and the owners of the facility allowed police to search unit, where the photographs were discovered.
Harris is believed to have used disposable and Polaroid cameras to photograph the male teenage victims as late as 2008.
The case is still under investigation.
Police are asking anyone who may have been a victim of this crime to contact Hopkinsville Police Detective Bert Finley at 270-890-1509.