A warrant for Snyder’s arrest has been issued. As of Thursday afternoon he had not yet been booked into the Butler County Jail.
The investigation began in September with the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. A task force investigator working to identify people who possessed and shared pornography using peer-to-peer software and identified images alleged to be child pornography downloaded to an IP address assigned to a subscriber at the Howards Creek address, according to court records.
Butler County Sheriff’s Deputies were notified and obtained a search warrant to seize the computer. While at the residence on Oct. 22, Snyder confessed to having photographs of minors on his computer, Lt. Mike Craft said.
The images included pre-pubescent children in various states of nudity and engaged in bestiality as well as sex acts with another adult.
Assistant Prosecutor Jennifer McElfresh said the images of not of children from the area.
“They are unidentified children in images downloaded from the Internet,” she said.
If convicted, Snyder could received up to eight years in prison on each of the 10 second-degree charges and up to 18 months on each of the fourth-degree felony charges.
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