A woman arrested after 15,000 child porn images were found on her computer has pleaded guilty—and she told authorities she once hoped to sell the images to finance her sex-change operation.
Serena Devenport was arrested in late 2002 when a computer tech repairing her machine found the images and tipped off police. She reportedly gave police a statement when she was arrested in late 2002, saying she first gathered the images from cyberspace to pay for the operation but didn't have any idea on how to go about it and gave up on the idea almost as quickly as she thought of it.
The court dropped a charge of intent to distribute child porn after agreeing that the plan was fleeting. The images were said to show either extreme sexual posing to full intercourse among children from 4 years old to teenage.
Devenport faces a possible two years of house arrest and three more years' probation in the case, a sentence jointly recommended by prosecutor Jill Duncan and Devenport's attorney, Sarah Inness.
Her sentencing is scheduled for June 28, allowing the trial judge to decide whether Devenport should be made a registered sex offender, something her attorney argued is unneeded because she would be under five years' tight supervision if the recommended sentence is accepted.
