Price Receives Five-Year Local Sentence For Child Porn Possession
By Liz Shepherd
InkFreeNews
Ryne Edward Price
WARSAW — A North Webster man will serve a five-year sentence locally after officers found images of child pornography on his electronic devices.
Ryne Edward Price, 35, 5402 N. 850E, North Webster, was charged with two counts of possession of child pornography, both level 5 felonies; and possession of child pornography, a level 6 felony.
Price pled guilty to all three charges and was sentenced in Kosciusko Superior Court One on Thursday, Jan. 19.
In total, Price will serve three years at the Kosciusko County Jail and two years on probation. He has 186 days of jail time credit and must register as a sex offender.
At sentencing, Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Joseph Sobek asked Kosciusko Superior Court One Judge Karin McGrath to accept the plea agreement. Defense Attorney Jay Rigdon said the plea agreement was fair given the circumstances of the case. Both Sobek and Rigdon had no objection to Price serving his sentence at KCJ.
McGrath noted a psychiatric evaluation on Price had been filed with the court.
In October 2020, Price uploaded seven child pornography files to a messaging and social networking app. On Nov. 4, 2021, a search warrant at Price’s home resulted in the discovery of child pornography, including three child sexual assault material videos. Price has a prior conviction for child molestation from Noble County in 2008.
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