A 31-year-old registered sex offender was charged Monday with possession of child pornography and sending pornography to a girl.<\/p>\n
Cole Perry Churchill was charged with two counts of possession of child pornography with a prior conviction and single counts each of distributing pornography to a minor with the intent to engage in sex and contacting a minor with the intent to commit sex, all felonies.<\/p>\n
Churchill was convicted Feb. 1, 2023, in San Diego County of felony lewd acts with a child 14 to 15 years old. He was placed on three years of probation in May of 2023.<\/p>\n
According to a probation violation petition filed in Orange County in January, Churchill was caught with several bottles of wine in his kitchen and with a phone that had web access and contained pornography and child pornography.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome of the images discovered depicted videos of females that appeared to be of pre-pubescent age in sexual poses and wearing very little to no clothing,\u201d according to the petition. \u201cAlso discovered were dozens of images of pre-pubescent females in cheerleading outfits. \u2026 Also discovered on his cell phone were several conversations with several females.\u201d<\/p>\n
In one of the conversations he asked one female if she wanted to \u201cvideo call while I shower,\u201d according to the petition.<\/p>\n
The probation official who wrote the report alerted Orange County sheriff\u2019s investigators to scrutinize the cell phone.<\/p>\n
The dates of the alleged crimes in the complaint were Jan. 23, the date the probation officer did a compliance check on him, and Thursday, which was when the defendant was arrested.<\/p>\n
Churchill pleaded guilty April 10 to violating probation and was sentenced to a year in prison, but he had credit for a year in jail and was released.<\/p>\n
Churchill was scheduled to be arraigned Dec. 15 in the Central Justice Center in Santa Ana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 31-year-old registered sex offender was charged Monday with possession of child pornography and sending pornography to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[23690,163,165,164,3409,40576,40577,40578,40579],"class_list":["post-68461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-accused","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-child","tag-offender","tag-porn","tag-possessing","tag-sending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}