Porn | Union Gap Man Gets Prison For Child Porn

A Union Gap man charged with possession of child pornography after a rental company repossessed his laptop was sentenced Wednesday to one year and a day in prison.

Larry Vernon Anderson, 53, also was placed on 18 months of probation and must register as a sex offender for 10 years for his plea in Yakima County Superior Court to a single count of possessing child porn.

The case dated to 2006, when employees of Rent-A-Center told police they found child porn on a rented laptop that had been recently repossessed from Anderson.

According to charging documents, the employees told police they were deleting files from the computer when they stumbled across child porn in a folder named "Larry's Files."

The case was dismissed by county prosecutors who expected it would be handled in U.S. District Court, where penalties for child porn are tougher. Federal prosecutors declined to take the case, so it was refiled in state court.

Anderson had been free on bail in the meantime, but was taken into custody Wednesday to begin serving his sentence.

Anderson had no criminal record, and the standard range he faced under state sentencing guidelines for possessing child porn was between one year and a day to 14 months.