Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy Burgess sentenced a Wasilla man to 12 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for reciept of child pornography on Monday while saying  the files he  downloaded “depicted serious, disturbing, heinous violations that [the] children in the videos suffered,”

Judge Burgess pointed out as bad as those videos were, the videos 41-year-old Tyler Arlan Weis made of children using hidden cameras were “even more troubling,” because “the activity occurred in his own house.”

The investigation was initiated in October 2016 when AST, “while investigating an online file-sharing network, downloaded multiple files of child pornography from Weis’s computer,” the Department of Justice said. Those files showed “images of adults vaginally and anally penetrating prepubescent females,” court documents revealed.

When investigators with the Alaska State Troopers searched Weis’s home, they discovered images of child pornography on his computer and “multiple hidden camera videos of minors that Weis had secretly recorded while those minors used the bathroom in his home.”[xyz-ihs snippet=”Adsense-responsive”]The case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice.

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