Leader Staff
A Shawano man is facing 10 counts of possessing child pornography that he allegedly downloaded from several locations over the course of six months.
Roylee W. Nowell, 20, could face a maximum possible penalty of 25 years in prison and a $100,000 fine on each count if found guilty.
He was ordered held on a $5,000 cash bond after an appearance in Shawano-Menominee County Circuit Court on Monday. He is scheduled for an adjourned initial appearance June 23.
According to the criminal complaint, the Shawano County Sheriff’s Department was advised by the state Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) that child pornography was being downloaded and distributed over the Internet from two IP addresses in Shawano County.
Sheriff’s detectives linked those addresses, as well as a third, to Nowell, according to the complaint, which alleges he lived or was staying at those locations when the DCI observed child porn being downloaded.
The addresses were in the towns of Richmond and Wescott and in the city of Shawano, according to the complaint. The child porn was allegedly downloaded at those locations between November 2012 and April 2013.
According to the complaint, the DCI recovered 10 video files observed being downloaded at those locations from Internet sharing services known to traffic in child porn.
The videos feature prepubescent girls, some as young as 6 years old, engaged in sexual activity, according to the complaint.