Post by WaTcHeR on Feb 14, 2007 15:51:05 GMT -5
AVON - Livingston County Sheriff's deputies are dealing with charges against one of their own.
Sheriff's deputy Mark A. Cole, 36, of Bronson Avenue, Avon has been charged by Monroe County Sheriff's deputies with five counts of possessing child pornography.
According to Rochester media reports, Cole took his computer to The Computer Doctor in Henrietta, where Ross Aronson, company president, found the pictures while performing a data recovery operation, and called 911 after he saw the pornographic photos.
Cole, who has worked with the sheriff's department since 1995, is free on $5,000 bail and is in the process of being suspended without pay.
Livingston County Sheriff John M. York issued a written statement Thursday, saying he was “disappointed and saddened that anyone, especially a Corrections Officer of this agency, would allow child pornography to exist, much less be downloaded to a computer.”
York said he was proud of the investigation conducted by the Monroe County Sheriff's investigators, and if the charges prove to be correct, Cole should be held accountable for his actions to the fullest extent of the law.
“Child abuse or child pornography and tolerance of such acts should be unacceptable by anyone, and we strongly encourage anyone with such knowledge to report such acts to the police immediately,” York wrote.
Cole, who graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology in 1996, was on the sheriff's office dive team. He was awarded the Livingston County Sheriff's department Medal of Valor and the Correction Officer of the Year award in the fall of 2002 by the New York State Sheriff's Association. The award is given to an officer who “has exhibited an exceptional dedication and commitment to the professional fulfillment of the difficult and important duties of the Sheriff's Office in operating the county jails.”
Cole shared the award with his co-workers who, on Feb. 4, 2001, evacuated 74 inmates and helped contain a fire in the laundry area of the Livingston County jail.
www.eveningtribune.com/articles/2007/02/09/news/news02.txt
Sheriff's deputy Mark A. Cole, 36, of Bronson Avenue, Avon has been charged by Monroe County Sheriff's deputies with five counts of possessing child pornography.
According to Rochester media reports, Cole took his computer to The Computer Doctor in Henrietta, where Ross Aronson, company president, found the pictures while performing a data recovery operation, and called 911 after he saw the pornographic photos.
Cole, who has worked with the sheriff's department since 1995, is free on $5,000 bail and is in the process of being suspended without pay.
Livingston County Sheriff John M. York issued a written statement Thursday, saying he was “disappointed and saddened that anyone, especially a Corrections Officer of this agency, would allow child pornography to exist, much less be downloaded to a computer.”
York said he was proud of the investigation conducted by the Monroe County Sheriff's investigators, and if the charges prove to be correct, Cole should be held accountable for his actions to the fullest extent of the law.
“Child abuse or child pornography and tolerance of such acts should be unacceptable by anyone, and we strongly encourage anyone with such knowledge to report such acts to the police immediately,” York wrote.
Cole, who graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology in 1996, was on the sheriff's office dive team. He was awarded the Livingston County Sheriff's department Medal of Valor and the Correction Officer of the Year award in the fall of 2002 by the New York State Sheriff's Association. The award is given to an officer who “has exhibited an exceptional dedication and commitment to the professional fulfillment of the difficult and important duties of the Sheriff's Office in operating the county jails.”
Cole shared the award with his co-workers who, on Feb. 4, 2001, evacuated 74 inmates and helped contain a fire in the laundry area of the Livingston County jail.
www.eveningtribune.com/articles/2007/02/09/news/news02.txt