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Former Democratic Illinois State Representative Keith
Farnham, 67, of Elgin, resigned his seat in the Illinois General
Assembly last March, less than a week after federal agents
seized his computers.
Farnham admitted that on Nov. 25, 2013, he sent an email from a
computer in his Elgin office with the following message: “do you
trade. This is what I lik.” Farnham attached two files to the
email that he knew contained child pornography, according to the
plea agreement.
On the day Farnham's computers and electronic storage devices
were seized by federal agents, he had 2,765 images of child
pornography. Many of the images were graphic in nature, and
involved sexual acts with children as young as two years old,
the plea agreement said. Some of the images involved sadistic
conduct and depictions of violence.
Farnham is out on a restrictive bond, which includes home
incarceration with electronic monitoring. He faces five to 20
years in prison and a maximum fine of $250,000 when he is
sentenced in federal court in Chicago on March 19.
(Reporting by Mary Wisniewski; Editing by Doina Chiacu)
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