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Computer Troubles Lead to Child Porn Arrest

By WYDaily Staff Friday, May 13, 2011

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Joseph A. Papol
A 41-year-old James City County man is being held without bond at the Virginia Peninsula Regional Jail on child pornography charges.

Joseph Alfonso Papol, of Allyson Drive, was arrested Thursday afternoon on one count of possession of child pornography and 11 counts of second or subsequent possession of child pornography.

James City Police spokesman Major Steve Rubino said the charges resulted from an investigation triggered when Papol took his computer to a local computer repair service and a technician found suspected child pornography on Papol's computer hard drive. The discovery was reported to police, who obtained a search warrant for Papol's residence.

On May 3, investigators seized a laptop computer and laptop computer hard drive from Papol's home. A preliminary forensic examination of the hard drive revealed digital images, which led to Papol's arrest.

The images, Rubino said, were downloaded from online sites.

Rubino said Papol was unemployed and separated from his wife, who lives out of state with their children. He lives with his mother in James City.

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0 #4 Guest 2011-05-25 22:00
about this things happened, i dont believe this guy can do that, i know him well, he is a good father and a good son and a good friend. for the technician, you stole his future. you dont even ask him first whats the picture about. it could be not child pornography. because this guy dont know whats going on with his computer after being crashed. the technician picked the wrong guy, because this man is very good person. you have to come here in phils. and ask the people here where this man visited twice. and ask all of his friends too. who he really is. he is very goodman ever. he even saved me. the very unfair thing is he dont even see the pics they said its not nice. wheres the justice there. how he can depend himself when he dont see and dont know what kind of pics found in his hardrive...he is not like what they thought, he is very gentlemen and very loving and most especially he is very respectfull man. all he knows is to have a goodlife with his fiancee and for his mom who had disease. how can this people judging him like criminal. you must know him well not judge him right away.
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0 #3 Guest 2011-05-16 08:35
In today's download capabilities, it is very possible to download a *.rar of smut, w/o knowing what every file is. the only way to know, is to view every file, and then to your disgust delete the crap that was buried in the legal stuff.
So what I am saying is, it is possible to accidentally download the stuff, and not know it is there. Now, if they can prove that it was viewed after download (and obviously remained on the computer), this could be a problem.
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+3 #2 Guest 2011-05-14 05:06
As despicable as the charge is, what was the technician doing clicking around the computer? I keep many personal things (letters, emails, financial records, etc) on my computer that I don't want to share. Next time my computer needs service I guess I'll just have to get a new one instead of having a nosy technician fix it.
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+2 #1 Guest 2011-05-13 15:13
"No, seriously, I was just chillin' on my mom's couch, playing Dungeons and Dragons with my chat room pals and this guy said to check out this awesome link to see some pictures of dragon armor. I totally needed to get some for my dragon (I named him "Firepants" and I've got a half-dozen spiral notebooks of pictures I've drawn of him if you want to see them) and so naturally I clicked it. Well, I couldn't find the dragon armor pictures, but there were some other pictures that accidentally loaded. When I ran upstairs to tell my mom what happened (and get a glass of grape Kool-aid that mom made for me last night), even more pictures downloaded. Honestly, I tried to erase them, but my glasses fogged up and I couldn't see the keyboard. Worse, some jerk in the chat room totally cheated on his roll of the dice and killed my favorite character, Magnifico, the Dragon Keeper (I have some drawings of him, too). I took my computer to see if they could un-erase Magnifico because Firepants can't grow to a +105 dragon without a proper Dragon Keeper. So, you see, the dirty pictures weren't my fault. If my mom had just bought me that cool new computer when I'd asked her to, none of this would have happened..."
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