Antioch Man Arrested on Child Porn Charges After Skype Tips Off Police

ANTIOCH, TN — An investigation that began after a tip by alert employees at Skype, Metro Nashville police arrested an Antioch man on child pornography charges Sunday.

In August, Skype — an Internet video chat and voice call service — alerted Nashville police that a user in Davidson County uploaded two pornographic images of what was believed to be minor females using its service. Detectives then matched the IP address of the user to a home on Hickory Rim Court in Antioch.

On January 24, detectives executed a warrant on the home and interviewed Gerardo Paredes. A search of Paredes' cell phone revealed one of the photos which had been uploaded to Skype, along with "other sexual images of minor children." The phone was seized and examined by forensic examiners who found "hundreds" of images of child pornography.

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Detectives used 114 images to secure the warrant for Paredes' arrest Sunday, but indicated in the affidavit those images were just a "small, representative sample" of what was found.

Paredes is charged with sexual exploitation of a minor and is being held on a $300,000 bond.

Image via Metro Nashville Police