
By Mary Wisniewski
CHICAGO, Mar 19 (Reuters) – A sovereign decider on Thursday condemned a former Illinois state lawmaker to 8 years in jail for promulgation child publishing by bureau computers, rejecting a ask that a critically ill male be authorised to die during home.
Former Democratic Illinois State Representative Keith Farnham, 67, of Elgin, has pulmonary fibrosis and is approaching to have usually a few months to live, according to justice documents. U.S. District Judge Edmond Chang deserted a invulnerability ask that Farnham be authorised to sojourn on electronic home apprehension for 6 months to give him a possibility to die during home.
Chang, in a conference during a Chicago suburban courthouse, systematic Farnham to news to jail on May 19.
Farnham quiescent his chair in a Illinois General Assembly final March, reduction than a week after sovereign agents seized his computers.
Farnham certified that on Nov. 25, 2013, he sent an email from a mechanism in his Elgin bureau with a following message: “do we trade. This is what we lik.” Farnham trustworthy dual files to a email that he knew contained child pornography, according to a defence agreement.
Federal agents found 2,765 images of child publishing on Farnham’s computers and electronic storage devices. Many of a images were striking in inlet and concerned passionate acts with children as immature as 2 years old, a defence agreement said. Some of a images concerned sadistic control and depictions of violence. (Reporting by Mary Wisniewski; Editing by Bill Trott)
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