industry hit hard in recent years by the decreasing production of videos. The plea agreement states that the defendant sent out a link to account with 1,120 videos of child porn. Jury foreman Miles Williams, the father of a 1-year-old, said other jurors weren’t as outraged as Smith, but he added: Probably the biggest reason for the 10 of us favoring acquittal was. The 12-year-old Gilman expressed sheer excitement over winning the awards. A witness told investigators that the defendant often stood by the window in order to reach his neighbor’s wireless signal, according to the plea document.įurther investigation after Hodges’ arrest indicated that he had distributed child pornography in two other Kik chatrooms, according to court records.
Law enforcement investigators tracked down Hodges to his home on Grove Road in Monroeville. Agents found that image, created on May 28 last year, on the defendant’s phone.
The girl later told investigators that Hodges recorded her on his cell phone and that he threatened to kill her if she did not cooperate, according to the plea agreement. That victim, according to what Hodges told the officer, could not read or write and was “a little slow.” Hodges admitted that he struck up an online friendship with the man who turned out to be an undercover officer and offered to get a 12-year-old girl to make an illicit video for him.