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September 28, 2005
Apartment Filled With 3,000 Videos Of Child Porn
NEWARK, Del. -- A Delaware man was arrested after 3,000 videos, DVDs and pictures of child pornography were found in his apartment.
New Castle police said that the sheer volume of the material even shocked them, and it was all found by accident.
Mike Shaffer, a maintenance man at the Glen Eagle Village apartments on Sandalwood Drive in Newark, entered James Burgoon's apartment Monday afternoon to fix a water leak.
"I fixed the leak and there was some water damage, and soon as I opened up the door there was thousands and thousands of pornography. There was pictures," Shaffer said.
Shaffer said that what he saw in Burgoon's apartment disgusted him.
"I was devastated. I have an 8-year-old son and my wife runs an in-home day care. As soon as I saw that naked little girl, man, I just thought of my son," Shaffer said.
Authorities arrested Burgoon, 44, and charged him with 20 counts of possession of child porn, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.
According to police, the tapes have images of young girls from 8 to 12 years old and some of the children seen in some of the pictures live in Burgoon's apartment complex.
Authorities hauled away two truckloads of material on Tuesday. Detectives said that it might take them a month to sort through all of the tapes they confiscated.
Burgoon posted $30,750 bail Tuesday morning. Authorities said that he works two miles from his house as a cashier at an Acme store. A co-worker said that Burgoon was a quiet guy who usually didn't go out of his way to talk with people.
Posted by Nealus at September 28, 2005 12:36 AM
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