Fort Wayne, IN – “I don’t know why I like it so much, I just do.” That’s what Todd Smith, 40, told the federal agents who were searching his home last week. The agent advised Smith of his right to remain silent, but Smith wanted to talk. And talk. And talk some more. He showed them his giant stash of child pornography that he’d been collecting for years. He told them how he spends six to eight hours a day looking at it. And he told them that he didn’t know exactly how much kiddie porn there was, but it was “a ton.”

Smith was arrested last Wednesday when the search of his home turned up a heaping pile of child pornography. An agent with U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement and an Indiana State Police officer had been investigating Smith’s IP address, which was being used to distribute child pornography through peer-to-peer file sharing. Smith, aside from being a very lonely, very talkative man, is also a sick bastard. He had hundreds of images and videos on multiple external hard drives and computers throughout his house. Investigators took 20 CDs of images out with them when they arrested Smith.

Smith appeared in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana on Monday afternoon, charged with distributing child pornography and possessing child pornography. He’s being held in protective custody to keeop Bubba off his ass long enough for him to appear in federal court again on Thursday, when his probable cause hearing is set to take place.

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