Chat room user ‘NC Pig’ caught with 14,000 pictures of child porn, feds say
A 45-year-old man in North Carolina will serve eight years in prison after undercover agents connected him to an illicit online chatroom for child pornography, according to federal prosecutors.
William Gene Kaleb Koch pleaded guilty to receiving child pornography earlier this year and was sentenced before a federal judge Thursday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina said in a news release.
Koch, who is from Wilmington, also received five years of supervised release and will have to register as a sex offender.
Federal agents traced Koch to the username “NC Pig” after infiltrating an online chatroom where Koch had shared pictures of child pornography, prosecutors said. They also said he talked to other users “about the sexual exploitation of minors on at least 12 separate occasions.”
The Wilmington Police Department and federal agents raided Koch’s home in August 2018 after obtaining a search warrant, according to the news release. Koch subsequently admitted to sending and receiving pornographic content in the chatroom.
Law enforcement also seized his electronics during the search, prosecutors said.
They reportedly found hundreds of videos and more than 14,000 pictures of child pornography on the devices — “the majority of which depicted children under 12 years of age, and some of which depicted infants and portrayed sadistic or masochistic conduct or other depictions of violence,” prosecutors said.
Koch was indicted by a grand jury in August 2019 and arrested shortly thereafter, federal court filings show.
This story was originally published September 11, 2020 at 4:12 PM with the headline "Chat room user ‘NC Pig’ caught with 14,000 pictures of child porn, feds say."
