Man gets 3 years for Coos Co. child porn charges

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Story Published: Nov 18, 2009 at 10:33 AM PDT

By KCBY.com staff

COOS BAY, Ore. -- A fugitive captured at a Bend, Ore., hotel in September was sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to child pornography charges.
 
“Child pornography victimizes children and the people who engage in it need to be punished,” said Attorney General John Kroger.
 
John Calvin Hudson III was indicted in Coos County in August but fled the area. The U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force arrested him in September in a Bend motel.

Hudson pleaded guilty Nov. 17 to 10 counts of encouraging child sexual abuse in the first degree and was sentenced to 3 years in prison and 3 years of post-prison supervision. 

Hudson’s arrest followed an investigation by the Oregon Department of Justice's Internet Crimes against Children (ICAC) unit, which investigates and prosecutes predators who use the internet to target and sexually exploit children. The unit works with 160 district attorneys, law enforcement agencies and regional task forces that investigate online predators. ICAC is the only program in Oregon that is equipped with the necessary resources to catch sex predators throughout the state.
 
Since 2005, more than 100 internet predators who targeted Oregon children or operated in Oregon have been convicted as a result of ICAC investigations.

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