Shorewood IT Guy's Kiddie Porn Case Up In Federal Court Today

The Shorewood man jailed on kiddie porn charges earlier this week is scheduled to appear in federal court in Chicago this afternoon.

Christopher Kice, 41, of 1110 Callaway Drive W. has been held without bond in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago following his arrest Monday night on a charge of possession of child pornography.

The arrest stemmed from a St. Patrick's Day search of Kice's home.

During that search, federal agents seized computers and computer equipment. The seized property was analyzed and allegedly found to contain kiddie porn.

More than five months later, the FBI and the  took Kice into custody just hours after an examination conducted at the Chicago Regional Computer Forensic Laboratory yielded what appeared to be child pornography, according to a statement released by the FBI.

Some of the illicit photographs discovered by investigators were taken in Kice's home, according to an FBI affidavit, and show young girls being fondled by the hand of an off-camera adult.

Among other images discovered in the investigation, the affidavit says, is a photograph "depicting a prepubescent girl, approximately six to eight years of age, receiving oral sex from a dog."

Kice's wife, Desiree Kice, seemed unconvinced that her husband had done anything wrong when she spoke about the matter outside her home Tuesday.

"It has nothing to do with anybody. It's private," she said. "Chris didn't hurt anybody."

In the FBI statement, which was released three days after Kice's arrest, the agency explained that they were alerted to the Shorewood man's "possible involvement in the collection of child pornography by his employer, an unnamed Chicago area law firm where Kice was employed in the Information Technology Department."

A message left at the Chicago office of the law firm listed as an employer on Kice's Facebook page was not immediately returned Thursday night.

Kice's co-workers at the law firm noticed he had downloaded "numerous large files with suspicious sounding names" onto a company computer and then transferred them to removable storage devices, according to the FBI statement.

Some of those "suspicious sounding" file names, according to the FBI affidavit, were "Church Girls Gone Wild," "underage illegal preteen daughter," "pedofil," "lolitaguy," and others too filthy to print.

Kice faces up to 10 years in federal prison if he is convicted on the single count of possession of child pornography.