CT man charged after police allegedly find child pornography in his home

A Connecticut man was arrested Tuesday after state police searched his home last month and allegedly found child pornography that included images showing him engaged in a sex act with a child.

Ross DeLibro, 53, of Shelton, faces one count each of employing a minor in an obscene performance, promoting a minor in an obscene performance and first-degree possession of child pornography, according to County Police. the State of Connecticut.

State police said he was taken into custody at his home and transported to Troop I in Bethany. DeLibro was held on $250,000 and is expected to be arraigned Wednesday in Derby Superior Court.

According to the arrest warrant affidavit, members of the state police computer crimes unit began investigating in January after learning that nine videos of alleged child pornography were allegedly downloaded from a computer at using an IP address believed to be in the Shelton area. The computer was believed to be accessing a peer-to-peer file sharing network, the warrant affidavit states.

According to the warrant affidavit, one of the videos allegedly showed a man with a child who appeared to be between 7 and 10 years old.

A member of the computer crimes unit, also assigned to Homeland Security Investigations, obtained a subpoena in April that allegedly led investigators to a link between the IP address used in the downloads and DeLibro, the report said. warrant affidavit.

Authorities then obtained a search and seizure warrant for DeLibro's home on April 30 and conducted the search the next day, according to the warrant affidavit.

Investigators interviewed DeLibro on the day of the search, and when they asked him about his employment, he said he was “a child care provider for three families,” the affidavit states of the mandate.

He also allegedly told investigators that he “may have a few” files containing child pornography on his computer, but that he “usually goes to websites to look at them,” according to the warrant affidavit.

State police along with members of the Shelton Police Department searched DeLibro's home and allegedly seized two computers, a hard drive, an iPad and an iPhone as well as 28 optical discs, the warrant affidavit states.

State police said an analysis of the seized property showed that the nine file downloads that prompted the investigation were “likely downloaded from a USB drive plugged into a computer belonging to DeLibro.” . State police said they also found 30 image files and one video file believed to be child pornography.

Two of the images “appear to have been produced by” DeLibro, since they show him with a juvenile, according to state police. Investigators were able to identify the minor victim.

State police said their investigation remains “active and ongoing.”