A Carpentersville man has been charged with owning and distributing child porn videos by the Kane County State’s Attorney’s Office.
Christopher M. Scholl, 44, of the 3100 block of Wakefield Drive, was arrested by the Kane County Sheriff’s Office after an investigation conducted by their office in collaboration with the state’s attorney’s office.
He faces charges 10 counts of disseminating child pornography/moving depictions, a class X felony, and 10 counts of possession of child pornography/moving depictions, a class 2 felony. All charges occurred prior to Feb. 3, according to a news release.
The Illinois Attorney General’s Office and the Internet Crimes Against Children’s Task Force assisted with the investigation, the release said.
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Scholl’s bail was set at $100,000 by Kane County Judge Julia Yetter. Should he be able to pay the 10% bond needed to be released from the county jail, he is prohibited from having unsupervised contact with anyone younger than 17 and from accessing file sharing websites, social media websites or websites characterized as pornographic, per the judge’s order.
Scholl’s next court appearance is scheduled for March 1.