Timothy Dale Bach Timothy Dale Bach shuffled into a Washington County courtroom Wednesday in an orange jumpsuit and shackles.
He wore a concerned expression as he sat in the jury box with other in-custody defendants, waiting to be sentenced on four counts of first-degree encouraging child sex abuse.
Bach, 39, pleaded guilty to the charges in April. He will be sentenced next week in federal court on one count of receiving child pornography. For both cases, he agreed to serve six and a half
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Timothy Dale Bach Timothy Dale Bach shuffled into a Washington County courtroom Wednesday in an orange jumpsuit and shackles.
He wore a concerned expression as he sat in the jury box with other in-custody defendants, waiting to be sentenced on four counts of first-degree encouraging child sex abuse.
Bach, 39, pleaded guilty to the charges in April. He will be sentenced next week in federal court on one count of receiving child pornography. For both cases, he agreed to serve six and a half years in prison. Circuit Judge Kirsten Thompson approved the sentence in state court Tuesday.
Detectives from the Interagency Child Exploitation Prevention Team arrested Bach in April 2011 at his apartment in Oak Hills, according to the sheriff’s office, where he had amassed thousands of illegal images on nearly two dozen computers and another 20 hard drives.
Deputy District Attorney Paul Maloney said investigators found Bach to be a very prolific downloader and distributor of child porn.
The sheriff’s office said during the investigation detectives discovered Bach’s Myspace page, which contained images of individual children and images of Bach with children, prompting concerns that he may have had contact with children and taken their pictures without their parent’s knowledge.
Maloney said Bach was not producing child porn, but was copying images and sharing them on a file-sharing network.
As he waited for his hearing, Bach sat with his shoulders hunched up near his ears. His hands rested against his ribs, a tissue wadded up in his palm.
At one point, Bach raised a finger, summoning his attorney, Sara Snyder. She sat next to him, talking with him quietly.
When his turn came, the room had nearly emptied. The other inmates had been ushered out. No friends or family members were present.
Thompson asked him if he had anything he wanted to say. He answered in a high, soft voice, “Uh, no.”
– Emily E. Smith