A Charlottesville grand jury indicted second-year Engineering student Ralph Samuel Rogers Monday in the Albemarle Circuit Court with 10 counts of child pornography.
University Police worked with the Charlottesville Police Department's Internet Crimes Against Children task force to arrest Rogers at Lambeth Field in December on 10 class six felony counts of possession of child pornography, University Police Captain Michael Coleman said.
Jon Zug, Albemarle County assistant Commonwealth's attorney, said the Charlottesville Police Department's ICAC worked with Albemarle County's ICAC to investigate Rogers.
The ICAC task force is made up of officers who investigate child pornography complaints and online predators, according to the Albemarle County ICAC website.
"It is [part of] the police department, and each of the two local police departments... have members of their department who are assigned to the ICAC task force," Zug said.
Coleman said once police collected enough evidence against Rogers, "The City obtained a search warrant for [his] IP address."
"The search warrant was served to Lambeth apartments," Coleman said.
Zug said Rogers faces five to 50 years in prison, or one to five years for each count of felony possession he faces.
The trial is set for Aug. 8 in Albemarle Circuit Court. Zug said Rogers looks likely to plead guilty.
-compiled by Joseph Liss and Thomas Forman II
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