Crime & Safety

Former UConn Football Player Arrested on Child Pornography Possession Charges

Gregory McKee, a redshirt freshman in 2010, was charged after a more than a year-long investigation resulting from a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to state police.

 

A former UConn football player was arrested on child pornography charges after an investigation found 96 still pictures and 26 videos of children, state police said.

Gregory McKee, 19, a Chicago native is charged with first-degree possession of child pornography, third-degree computer crime and third-degree larceny. McKee turned himself in to police at Troop C in Tolland at 8 a.m. Friday.

McKee, who is no longer a UConn student, was arraigned in Rockville Superior Court and released on a $25,000 bond, according to the state judicial website.

In December 2010, McKee was arrested for Importing and Distribution of Child Pornography, state police said in a press release. During this investigation, McKee’s computer and other items of evidentiary value were seized and sent to the Forensic Laboratory for examination, according to a state police press release.
 
The report revealed 96 still images of child pornography and 26 video files of child pornography. The images and videos depicted prepubescent male children from approximately 5 years old to about 10 years old in age, engaged in sexual acts. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) identified more than 70 of the children found within these image and video files.

In September 2010, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children forwarded a complaint sent through its CyberTipLine to the state police Computer Crimes and Electronic Evidence Unit.

Law enforcement officials traced usernames from online social networking site NING and a Hotmail and Yahoo! e-mail account to McKee, according to an arrest affidavit prepared by Trooper Adam Rosenberg in 2010.

On Nov. 16, 2010, Connecticut State Police, along with officers from the UConn police department and the Mansfield Resident State Trooper's Office, went to McKee's dorm room at Rosebrooks Hall and seized unidentified evidence, according to the arrest affidavit.

At that time, McKee provided a written statement to police saying that he had uploaded child pornography videos to NING in the summer of 2010 while at UConn, after an individual he met online, whom McKee called "Feinmann," created an e-mail account for him and told him he would make money by posting the links online, according to the arrest affidavit.

McKee told police that "Feinmann" could not be contacted for payment after McKee posted the links, according to the warrant.

In his statement, McKee told authorities that he had "approximately 20 videos and 20 still images of child pornography" on his laptop where he used his MSN messenger account "to make contact with people online where he obtained links to download child pornography" and "may have received child pornography" using his Yahoo! account, according to police.

McKee downloaded multiple videos ranging from "6 seconds in length to 2 minutes and 40 seconds in length" of children "approximately 8 years old to 15 years old" engaging in sexual activity and "lascivious exhibition," according to the affidavit.

In November 2011, the forensic analysis of the seized evidence was completed and Troopers applied for an arrest warrant for the accused, state police said. The warrant was issued by Superior Court G.A. #19 in Rockville.  


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