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1 of 3 brothers in Seattle child porn probe pleads guilty

Nov 21, 2017, 12:10 PM

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One of three brothers charged in a child pornography probe has pleaded guilty.

Edwin Emery, 79, pleaded guilty on November 17 to two counts of second-degree possession of depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.

His sentencing is scheduled for December 22 at 1 p.m. in King County Court.

The sentencing range for the crime is three to nine months.

His brothers, 82-year-old Charles Emery and 80-year-old Thomas Emery, are also charged with the same crime.

On Aug. 19, Seattle child sex crime detectives say they acted on a tip from a relative who arrived to clean out the brothers’ garage at their Green Lake home.

The relative called 911. At the home, detectives collected a staggering amount of child porn.

They also found evidence of the sexual exploitation of young girls as well as children’s worn clothing and underwear, children’s shoes, toys and movies.

Homeland Security’s Internet Child Exploitation team assisted in the search, which involved digging for potential buried evidence under locked sheds and garages.

Seattle police say the brothers began molesting their own sister and eventually molested other young relatives for decades.

None of them had ever married, none had their own children or many relationships outside their own siblings.

Police arrested Charles Lee Emery in a Queen Anne nursing home. Thomas Edwin Emery and Edwin Harold Emery were arrested at their home.

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