PORT ANGELES — A 22-year-old Port Angeles man accused of possessing child pornography will be arraigned this week in Clallam County Superior Court.
Shelby KC Scott Bush was charged Sept. 12 with possessing depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct after State Patrol forensics detectives analyzed a laptop computer he owned, court papers said.
Bush, who had been working at a carnival in Eastern Washington, was arrested by Adams County sheriff’s deputies Sept. 13 and booked into the Clallam County jail Wednesday.
He remained in jail Saturday on $5,000 bail.
Bush’s arraignment is scheduled for 9 a.m. Friday.
Clallam County deputies were alerted March 8 to a computer that possibly contained a sexually suggestive image of a naked female younger than 5, Detective Sgt. John Keegan said.
Video of child
Bush’s mother discovered a video of the child on the laptop after she told her son to leave her Solmar residence, court papers said.
The mother was “particularly concerned due to the fact that the video focused on the vaginal area of the young girl,” according to the arrest narrative.
Deputies obtained warrants to seize and search the laptop and other digital devices and sent them to a State Patrol crime lab for analysis.
State investigators Sept. 12 told Sheriff’s Deputy Kenneth Oien that, under a user profile of Shelby Bush, the computer contained multiple depictions of minors between the ages of 4 and 12, both male and female, engaged in various sex acts, court papers said.
Clallam County Superior Court Judge Erik Rohrer signed a warrant for Bush’s arrest Sept. 12.
Possessing depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct is a Class C felony punishable by a maximum of five years in prison, the arrest warrant said.
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