A 32-year-old man who taught TaeKwondo summer camps for kids was sentenced recently to five decades behind bars after several of his victims discovered he was secretly recording them.

When reports of his behavior were made to police in 2021, detectives executed a search warrant at Erik Chen’s home and found hundreds of thousands of images of child pornography stored on his electronic devices, according to a press release from the 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office. .

Chen was ordered Friday to serve 50 years in the Colorado Department of Corrections by a Douglas County judge. He will also be required to register as a sex offender once he is released.

  • laylawashere44
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    14
    ·
    1 year ago

    Hundreds of thousands of photos and videos of child pornography is why he got 50 years.

      • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        5
        ·
        1 year ago

        Videos are there. You can point to it and say “here”. Victim memories are often multiple years of not decades ago. It sucks, it really does but physical tangible evidence is very hard to argue against vs someone 30 years old talking about what happened when they were 11.

        Besides, the church has the resources unlike this guy.