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LAKE ALFRED, Fla. — The Polk County Sheriff’s Office filed an additional 2,896 counts of enhanced possession of child pornography against a former Lake Alfred City Commissioner on Tuesday, April 30.
Charles Lake, 90, is now facing a total of 3,196 felony charges.
Following his original arrest on April 18, a Polk County Sheriff’s Office technician examined all of his electronic storage devices that were seized as evidence during a search of his residence and recovered 2,896 video and image files depicting pornographic sexual abuse images of children between the ages of 6 months to 12-years-old, and engaged in graphic sexual conduct with adults, children, and animals, according to an arrest report.
The report stated that Lake “had a very compartmentalized system of organizing and categorizing the thousands of child sex abuse images he had.”
The sheriff’s office said detectives found on his computers and electronic storage devices: “child rape images and videos with adults sexually abusing children, children engaged in graphic sexual conduct with other children, bestiality with children, and child pornography that displayed children in lewd and sexually explicit situations.” Lake had other “adult,” pornographic images and videos that included transgenderism and bestiality, the report said.
The Polk County Sheriff’s Office is asking the public if anyone is aware of or witnessed any inappropriate behavior from Lake, to contact the sheriff’s office at 863-298-6200.
“Charles Lake is a public official with a dark, twisted involvement with the exploitative child pornography trade. In the past, he has done photography for the city and local schools, and has assisted people with their computers. We are asking if anyone is aware of or witnessed any inappropriate interactions, images, or involvement associated with Charles Lake to contact the Polk County Sheriff’s Office at 863-298-6200,” Sheriff Grady Judd said in the arrest report.
Per Florida State Statutes, possession of child pornography is reclassified to the next higher degree (enhanced), if the offender possesses 10 or more images of any form of child pornography regardless of content; and the content of at least one image contains one or more of the following: a child younger than the age of 5, sadomasochistic abuse involving a child, sexual battery involving a child, sexual bestiality involving a child, or any movie involving a child.
Spectrum News Staff
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