Wilmington – A proactive online undercover investigation by the Delaware Child Predator Task Force has led to the arrest of a Bridgeville man on child pornography charges, Attorney General Beau Biden announced today.

“The Delaware Child Predator Task Force, through the use of cutting-edge technology, has the tools to identify predators and bring them to justice,” Attorney General Biden said.

The Task Force investigation led to the execution of a search warrant on Thursday, March 1, 2012 by Task Force personnel and a Delaware State Police Trooper to a residence at 20951 San Filippio Road, in Bridgeville, DE.  As a result of the search warrant detectives seized one computer and other digital media.  The sole occupant of the residence, Terry Keith Baker, age 54, denied dealing in child pornography.  Although an initial preview of the computer suggested that files containing child pornography had been on the machine at some point, no images were found during the preliminary investigation.  Baker was released pending further investigation.

The digital evidence was transported to the Delaware State Police High Technology Crimes Unit for a forensic analysis, which revealed over 30 files of child pornography that had been transferred from the computer to a disk.  As a result of those findings, Baker was arrested on Monday, March 12, 2012 and charged with 25 counts of dealing in child pornography.  He was arraigned by videophone at JP Court #2 and was ordered to be held at Sussex Correctional Institute in lieu of $250,000 bail.

A booking photo of Baker is attached.

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