Wheaton Man Gets Prison For Child Porn
WHEATON, Ill. (STMW) - A 21-year-old Wheaton man was sentenced Friday to six years in prison for keeping pornographic images of children in his personal computer.
Robert D. Miller remained early Saturday in DuPage County Jail, awaiting transfer into the Illinois Department of Corrections' prison system.
IDOC officials will evaluate Miller and determine whether or not he is eligible for enrollment in a boot camp-like alternative program, according to documents on file in DuPage County Circuit Court.
Miller pleaded guilty to a felony charge of possession of child pornography, court records indicated. Judge John J. Kinsella accepted the plea and imposed the sentence, the terms of which include having Miller register as a convicted sex offender for the rest of his life.
Wheaton police in early 2008 began investigating Miller, after receiving information he was trading pornographic images of children with others over the Internet.
Undercover police swapped several such images with Miller before raiding his home on the 26W100 block of Menomini Drive. The images came from a peer-to-peer online network, or free file-sharing website.
A grand jury in July 2008 indicated Miller on 10 felony counts of child pornography.
Miller in 2007 pleaded guilty to the attempted burglary of a home in Glen Ellyn. He was ordered to make restitution and placed on two years of felony probation in that case.
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