Monitor Editor
STARKE— A man who told a Bradford detective he thought he was watching child pornography legally was arrested for viewing the outlawed material.
Bradford deputies arrested William Walter Strickland, 45, of Starke on June 15 for possessing, controlling or intentionally viewing child pornography.
According to an arrest report, two witnesses told Bradford Sheriff’s Detective James Crews that the defendant views child pornography regularly. In addition, another officer within the agency received an anonymous phone call making the same claim.
Crews wrote in the report that while interviewing Strickland about the allegations, the defendant admitted to having “an embarrassing porn addiction.”
“William continued to refer to not downloading the videos or pictures,” Crews wrote. “William believed if he did not download videos or pictures of underaged females to his phone, then it was not a crime.”
