Man Found Living in Filth with 13-year-old Slapped with Child Porn Charges

A 36-year-old man found living in ’squalor’ with a 13-year-old faces child porn charges, after an investigation turned up images on his computers and other electronic devices.

Mark V. McKune, 36, of Bourbonnais, was charged this week with eight counts of child pornography in Kankakee County Circuit Court, according to a statement from the Will County State’s Attorney’s Office.

Kankakee police called Will County’s High Technology Crimes Unit, for help with an investigation into the downloading of child pornography, prosecutors said. When authorities showed up at McKune’s house in the 0-100 block of Bonds Avenue in Bourbonnais, they found the man and teen living in “squalid” conditions. The house was later determined uninhabitable, NBC reports.

Investigators searched the home and removed cell phones and other digital storage devices, according to the report.

The teen was pulled from the home, and is now staying with other family. It’s unclear how the man and child are related, if at all.

McKune is being held at the Jerome Combs Detention Center on a $100,000 bond. The case will be co-prosecuted by Will and Kankakee counties.

If convicted, McKune could serve up to 7 years in prison