Roundhead man faces federal child porn charge
May 20—TOLEDO — The Hardin County Sheriff's Office assisted the FBI in an investigation of child pornography that resulted in the arrest of a Hardin County man on Monday.
Mark Butterman, 51, of rural Roundhead, faces federal charges of receipt and distribution of child pornography.
A federal grand jury indictment, filed May 7 but unsealed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, alleges that Butterman from Dec. 24, 2023, until on or about June 7, 2024, did "knowingly receive and distribute" a visual production that involved the use of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct ..."
Butterman was arraigned May 19 before Magistrate Judge Darrell Clay. During that hearing Butterman waived his right to a detention hearing and agreed to be held without bail. A pre-trial conference was set for July 10 before Judge James Knepp II.
He was ordered to forfeit to federal investigators all books, magazines, periodicals, films, videotapes and other matter which contain visual depictions of sexual activity featuring minors which were produced, transported, mailed, shipped or received in violation of Title 18 of the U.C. Code. He also must surrender "all property, real and personal, constituting or traceable to gross profits or other proceeds obtained from the offense charged in Court 1, and all property ... used or intended to be used to commit or promote the commission of the offense. The forfeitures include an Apple iPhone and an Apple iPad, according to the indictment.
Butterman was transported to Toledo by the FBI and was arraigned on the charges, according to the statement from the Hardin County Sheriff's Office.
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