Crime & Safety
Man Seeking Incest Pornography Faces Felony Charges
Police find 60 child pornography images while executing search warrant at Waukesha apartment.
A former Waukesha man who was caught with child pornography on his computer told a Waukesha detective he found the files while searching for mother-daughter pornography, according to a criminal complaint.
Steven A. Christiansen, 31, of Oconomowoc, faces up to 45 years initial confinement in prison and $300,000 in fines if convicted of three counts of possessing child pornography. He was charged on Friday in Waukesha County Circuit Court. Christiansen was released from jail on $1,500 bail.
A Waukesha detective was investigating the sharing of child pornography and located an IP address suspected of sharing child pornography, according to the complaint. Officers executed a search warrant on Tuesday, just before Christiansen planned to move out of the Riverwalk Drive apartment.
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Investigators located 60 images containing child pornography on the computer, the complaint states.
Christiansen admitted to finding the child pornography files while searching for mother-daughter incest pornography, adding that he watched the videos to see if there was a mother involved in the pornography, according to the complaint.
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