A Boy Scouts employee who was convicted of possessing child porn will serve more than six-and-a-half years in prison.
The U.S. Attorney's office says 34-year-old Russel Rath of Lyons was convicted of possessing child pornography, including images of prepubescent children. The defendant uploaded files containing the images to a Yahoo server. Yahoo intercepted the files and reported them to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Investigators traced the images back to Rath, and a search warrant was served on him a little over a year ago. During a search of his home, investigators seized electronic devices containing more than 10-thousand pornographic images.