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Aug. 16, 2005 12:00 AM

Downloading child porn gets man 24 years in jail

PHOENIX - A 45-year-old man was sentenced Monday in Maricopa County Superior Court to 24 years in prison after pleading guilty to downloading child pornography at Arizona State University.

Michael Dennis Williams was arrested in February after he was found looking at pornographic images of girls younger than 10 at a computer in the Hayden Library at ASU.

He was found downloading the images to a portable computer drive, which carried 8,700 other pictures of child pornography.

Williams told investigators that he received brief jail sentences in Tennessee and Oregon for similar offenses.