Man's 'Deep Dark Secret' Leads to Child Porn Charges

WAUWATOSA, WI — A Wauwatosa man told investigators that it was his "deep dark secret" after he was caught with child pornography on his computer and cell phone.

Anthony Shaw, 58, has been charged with five counts of possession of child pornography, and if convicted, faces up to 75 years behind bars.

On July 31, Wauwatosa police were notified by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in reference to a CyberTipline report.

According to police reports, an IP address that was used to upload images of child pornography had been traced to the City of Wauwatosa.

According to police, the report generated by Google stated that a username listed corresponded to Mark Anthony Shaw of the 2500 block of N. 124th St.

Detectives conducted a search warrant on Aug. 30 in the arfternoon, in which investigators determined that Shaw visited pornographic websites a few times per week. Detectives told Shaw of their findings, including that there were images of small children in the report, including an animated file of a child being sexually assaulted. When detectives asked Shaw if he remembered that file, he responded, "possibly, yeah," according to the criminal complaint filed in Milwaukee County.

According to the criminal complaint, Shaw told police that viewing child pornography was a "deep dark secret" of his and that he only recently started looking at child pornography.

Mentioned in the criminal complaint were ten pornographic images, all involving children. The nature of these images is too graphic to report publicly, other than to state that images were located both on Shaw's personal computer in addition to his cell phone.

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