《中英對照讀新聞》Kansas man collects 3 million child porn pictures 堪薩斯州男子蒐集3百萬張兒童色情照片

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A 74-year-old Kansas man collected more than 3 million child pornography photographs and traded them over the Internet, a federal prosecutor said.

一名74歲的堪薩斯州男子，蒐集超過3百萬張兒童色情照片，而且透過網路交換，一名聯邦檢察官說。

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Donald Schmidt of Wichita, Kan., pleaded guilty to one count of distributing child pornography and one count of possessing child pornography in U.S. District Court in Wichita on Monday.

堪薩斯州威契塔市的唐諾．施密特，週一在威契塔市的美國地區法院上，認了散布兒童色情內容及持有兒童色情內容各一項罪名。

In his plea, he admitted to swapping pictures of child pornography over the Internet via a peer-to-peer network.

他在答辯時坦承透過點對點網路，在網際網路上交換兒童色情照片。

Wichita police served a search warrant at Schmidt’s home earlier this year and found two computers hooked up to separate Internet service providers and 11 banker’s boxes containing boxes of CDs and DVDs.

威契塔市警局今年稍早持搜索票進入施密特的家，發現兩台電腦連上不同的網際網路服務供應商，以及11個裝有好幾箱CD與DVD的置物紙箱。

Forensic analysis identified an estimated 3 million-plus images of child porn on the computers, external drives and disks, according to U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom.

鑑識分析在這些電腦、外接式磁碟機裡，找到估計3百多萬張影像，據美國檢察官貝利．葛利索姆指出。

Schmidt admitted that along with distributing the child pornography, he chatted online about molesting children.

施密特坦承，除了散布兒童色情內容外，他也在網路聊天室討論猥褻兒童的話題。

新聞辭典

swap：動詞，交換。例句：He swapped views with other people.（他與其他人交換看法。）

hook up：片語，連接、連上。例句：The telephone will be hooked up in a few days.（電話將在數天內裝好接通。）

molest：動詞，騷擾、調戲、猥褻等。例句：The girl complained that she had been molested in the park.（女孩抱怨在公園遭到調戲。）