Huron man pleads guilty to possessing child porn

HURON — A Huron man recently pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography. At a court hearing on July 14, Corey Naylor, 34, 600 block Cleveland Road W., pleaded guilty to two counts of pandering obscenity involving a minor or impaired person, a second- and fourth-degree felony. Naylor pleaded guilty to the two charges in exchange for 10 additional counts of pandering obscenity involving a minor or impaired person, both second and fourth-degree felonies, and one count of possessing criminal tools, a fifth-degree felony to be dismissed. Both the prosecution and Naylor's lawyers have agreed to a recommended sentence of four to six years in prison. He will additionally be classified as a Tier 2 sex offender, which means that he must verify home and work addresses every six months for 25 years, according to Naylor's guilty plea form. But Naylor could potentially be sentenced to a maximum prison term of nine-and-a-half to 13-and-a-half years, according to court records. Naylor is scheduled to be sentenced at 9 a.m. on Sept. 25. Background The investigation into Naylor first began on Aug. 15, after the Internet Crimes Against Children task force assigned the case to the Huron Police Department. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received information from the free mobile messaging app Kik regarding a possible case of child pornography within the city limits, according to a Huron police incident report. The company provided the task force with the alleged email address that was used as well as the username responsible for uploading the child pornography, including an IP address. Based on the information received, Huron police started reviewing the two files provided by the task force, which were identified as belonging to Naylor's Kik account. Both depicted sexually explicit videos depicting a minor. Police stated that Naylor was suspected of uploading and sharing both videos, according to the report. Due to the nature of the videos, Huron police prepared and obtained a search warrant for MediaLab AI, which owns the app Kik, to collect all information regarding Naylor's account. The files were returned by the company on Nov. 10. After Huron police reviewed all the files that were provided, they noted that several videos and images contained child pornography and prepared to obtain a search warrant for Naylor's residence. On Dec. 16, Police responded to Naylor's home and explained to Naylor the nature of the warrant and his rights. Police stated that the only statements Naylor made to them pertained to the age of the girls he was communicating with on his Kik account. Naylor allegedly told police that all the girls he was communicating with told him they were in their 20s, the report states. During the search, police seized Naylor's cellphone, laptops, tablets and hard drives. Police dropped off Naylor's cell phone at the Erie County Sheriff's Office for a forensic examination. On Jan. 20, Huron police retrieved the cellphone from the sheriff's office as well as the completed report, which showed four videos that depicted underage girls who were either "nude or engaged in sexual conduct," the report states. Naylor was initially arrested on March 13 following an indictment from the Erie County grand jury on March 11 for six counts of pandering obscenity involving a minor or impaired person, each a fourth-degree felony. On March 27, Naylor was indicted on six additional counts of pandering obscenity involving a minor or impaired person, each a second-degree felony, and one count of possessing criminal tools, a fifth-degree felony.