300 years in prison

Child pornography on cell phone: son reports father

Gene Follin with his son Jared. The pensioner had stored 952 folders with child pornography material on his cell phone and laptop.(Bild: Facebook.com/GeneFollin)

Thanks to a blocked email account, a serious case of child pornography was uncovered in the USA. Gene Follin is facing 300 years in prison because his 30-year-old son Jared did not want to turn a blind eye to his father's atrocities.

What happened? When he tried to log into his Gmail account, Gene Follin received a message that it had been blocked. The 63-year-old from the small town of Kenneth City in Florida then asked his son Jared to restore the account.

The 30-year-old succeeded in doing so. However, he couldn't believe his eyes when he found tons of child pornography images and videos in the mailbox. Jared immediately alerted the police.

Arrest photo of Gene Follin(Bild: Police Kenneth City )

According to the executive, Jared had wanted to find out why the account had been blocked before his terrible discovery. He soon came across a message from Google's monitoring system, which had found that Follin had uploaded and stored "sexual images of children". This proved to be true. Jared also found more photos in the iPhone's picture folder.

952 folders found
A total of "952 folders containing child pornography and child erotica" were seized from Follin. In his first interrogation, the 63-year-old is said to have admitted to "storing child pornography".

Bail set - man released
Gene Follin was arrested and charged after the house search. He faces 300 years in prison. He remains free on bail of 100,000 dollars until the trial begins.