Man Arrested On Child Pornography Charges

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Posted: 12:22 AM Oct 20, 2007
Last Updated: 12:22 AM Oct 20, 2007

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A man is in jail in Southern Kentucky for downloading child pornography right in front of police.

Williamsburg Police say they were called to the Whitley County Library Friday afternoon after several people saw a man looking at child porn on the internet. A detective says he stood and watched as 43 year old Robert C. Hillard visited web sites showing children in sexual situations.

Hillard is charged with voyeurism and possession of matter portraying a minor in sexual performance.

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Posted by: understand Location: nope on Oct 22, 2007 at 11:26 PM
sexual association with children is a mental illness formed from childhood experiences such as rape & torture...I was raped many times at 5 years old, and raped and tortured for years after that until age 14. This formed in me a sexual attraction towards children...this will make sense to people who understand the psychology of sexual boundary/trust violation in a child. Pedophile urges are a symptom of a disease - we need treatment. I am 12 stepping my urges to visit child porn Internet sites - I cannot bear the torment of it any longer - I am surrendering to God for help and so far I am doing well. God Bless

Posted by: Anonymous on Oct 22, 2007 at 10:25 PM
Hell yeah! Ban Everything!

Posted by: M to Anonymous Location: Lexington on Oct 22, 2007 at 03:18 PM
I certainly do hope you are kidding. Child pornograpy is illegal, reading books is not.

Posted by: Zatoichi Location: Richmond on Oct 22, 2007 at 01:43 PM
Let's just ban anyone who posts ridiculous comments under the name Anonymous. Heck..everything is okay. It's all good. Can I get a Hell Yeah from you, Mr. Anonymous?

Posted by: Anonymous on Oct 22, 2007 at 12:42 PM
Heck...let's just ban everything. If we ban everything, then no one will be upset about anything. Not only should we ban certain sites at the library, we should just ban libraries. I bet libraries contain books you don't like. Banning libraries would get ride of those tastless books. While we're at it, let's just ban books too. If we ban all the books too, you won't have to worry whether or not your children see something you dislike. Personally, I think we should just ban children too. (I hate the little critters, personally).

Posted by: Zatoichi Location: Richmond on Oct 22, 2007 at 12:19 PM
He was probably just doing research. Right? Possibly a university can give him a grant to continue after he gets out of jail.

Posted by: wildgranny Location: corbin on Oct 22, 2007 at 11:24 AM
This is what our society is coming to.We allow our children to be exposed to such filth. Why can't these sites be eliminated. We need to eliminate the site and work on the predators. We put them in jail and they are released and placed on a list and generally do what they want from there. Our laws are not strong enough to take care of this problem.

Posted by: Goebel Location: Lexington on Oct 21, 2007 at 11:10 AM
Take him to the nearest veterian and have him put down.

Posted by: Mike Location: ON on Oct 21, 2007 at 10:06 AM
You can hardly blame the library for this, no association would be able to keep track of all the child porn sites.

Posted by: Dan Location: NJ on Oct 21, 2007 at 02:18 AM
Check if the library allows unfiltered access to the Internet and if the library allows this because it is following American Library Association dictates. If so, consider bring suit against the American Library Association and the library. At a minimum, the community should become aware such crimes may continue until all computers are filtered to help prevent future occurrences. Do not trust the ALA for advice - it sidesteps US v. ALA to ensure libraries remain unfiltered.

Posted by: Cassie Location: Corbin, Ky on Oct 20, 2007 at 07:24 PM
I have visited Whitley County Library, we can't access MySpace but other can access Child Porn?? That's not right, sounds like a problem to me.

Posted by: donny Location: ky on Oct 20, 2007 at 04:46 PM
thats sad that a grown man would look at a kid like that its sick,,hope he goes to jail and stay there,,sick people out there,,trash i call it,sick sick sick,

Posted by: Jack Location: Pike County on Oct 20, 2007 at 07:39 AM
Well what else would you expect! The fact that he's viewing child pornography to begin with says a lot about his IQ.

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