Police: RI health official uploaded child porn to email server

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — The R.I. Department of Health worker arrested and charged with possession of child pornography earlier this week reportedly uploaded 40 graphic pictures of younger women to an email server, 12 News has realized.

Jeffrey Hill, 46, of South Kingstown, was arrested Tuesday and charged with one depend of possession of child pornography and one depend of possession of child erotica.

The investigation into Hill started again in March, in accordance to a police report obtained by 12 News, when safety personnel at Oath Holdings, the corporate that owns Yahoo, contacted the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) about an email account that had uploaded a variety of suspicious information.

Oath Holdings was ready to hint the account again to a Wakefield deal with, at which level NCMEC contacted R.I. State Police for help.

Hill, in accordance to the report, had uploaded greater than three dozen graphic pictures to his Yahoo account after which despatched them again to himself through email. Detectives decided that “all 40 information had been in step with the definition of child pornography and child erotica.”

Investigators had been ready to monitor Hill down by means of private and work emails despatched to his Yahoo account, the report states, together with a web based order affirmation.

Immediately following Hill’s arrest, detectives seized his cellular phone and two exterior onerous drives from his residence, in accordance to police.

12 News has realized Hill is a Health Department worker that runs a program targeted on child hurt prevention. Hill was beforehand listed as this system’s major contact on the Health Department’s website, nevertheless, his identify has since been faraway from the web page.

Hill has been positioned on administrative depart pending the result of the investigation. He was arraigned Tuesday and launched on $5,000 surety bail pending his subsequent courtroom date.