Shorewood IT Guy Sentenced to 16 Years in Federal Prison For Child Pornography

A Shorewood IT guy jailed since 2011 on child pornography charges was sentenced to 16 years in federal prison.

Christopher Kice, 44, had pleaded guilty to a count each of production of child pornography and possession of child pornography in January 2013.

Federal agents and local police raided Kice’s Callaway Drive home on St. Patrick’s Day 2011. Kice’s employer, a Chicago-area law firm, had tipped the feds to the possibility he was possessing of child pornography.

A forensic investigation of Kice’s computer equipment turned up pornographic images of young girls, according to an affidavit penned by an FBI agent, and he had numerous illicit computer files bearing such names as “Church Girls Gone Wild,” “underage illegal preteen daughter,” “pedofil,” “lolitaguy,” and others too filthy to print.

Among the images discovered during the investigation, the affidavit said, is a photograph “depicting a prepubescent girl, approximately six to eight years of age, receiving oral sex from a dog.”

Kice admitted to using his laptop computer to download pornography, the affidavit said, and he also confessed to viewing child pornography “in the past,” although not intentionally.

“Kice stated that if he unintentionally came across these images then he would delete them,” the affidavit said. “Kice also stated that he knew people who had downloaded one child pornographic image and it had ruined their lives.”

FBI agents arrested Kice six months later.

Kice must serve 10 years parole after he is released from prison. He was also ordered to pay $5,000 restitution.

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