There’s some very sick and disgusting people in this world and Best Buy was able to get one locked up. According to BuzzFeed News, a 54-year-old man in Des Moines, Iowa named Robert Leo Watson had spilled gravy all over his laptop and brought it to Best Buy for repairs on 4/30.
A tech worker at the Best Buy had discovered that child porn was on the laptop. Watson was looking to get the porn videos transferred to another file. That’s what happened but it was also sent in to police as evidence.
“They don’t search for the material, but inadvertently discover it in the normal course of repairing a computer,” said public relations director for Best Buy Paula Baldwin. “When we do find what appears to be child pornography, we have a legal obligation to notify law enforcement and we inform our customers of this prior to doing any work. Law enforcement determines a course of action based on the evidence, as they did in this situation.”
Watson gave himself up in an interview with police as he said he’s been the only one to use the computer. He’s since been charged with ten counts of possession of child pornography. He’s also being on $50,000 bond at Polk County Jail. Flip the page to check out how the FBI is using Geek Squad to crack down on child porn, courtesy of the Des Moines Register.
