A Roanoke Rapids man who in 2018 received a 70-month federal prison sentence and then five years of supervised release afterward was arrested Tuesday after an August report that he was uploading child sex abuse material on an internet site.
Christopher Van Skipper, 37, was jailed on $1 million bond for 10 counts of third-degree sexual exploitation of a minor, according to Major Anzell M. Harris of the Halifax County Sheriff’s Office.
The sheriff’s office Criminal Investigations Division had received information a person later identified as Skipper, a registered sex offender, was uploading material.
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Skipper was identified on August 30 and on Tuesday a search warrant was granted for his residence on Lonnie B. Green Road.
Detectives with the sheriff’s office and special agents with the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation executed the search warrant.
Skipper was not at the location when the search warrant was executed. Multiple items were seized from the residence and warrants were obtained by Detective C. Watkins.
Shortly after Watkins left the residence, Skipper returned home and was taken into custody.
This case is still being investigated and more charges could follow. Skipper’s federal probation officer has been notified of the findings thus far in this case.
On March 20, 2018, District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced Skipper on count 2 of his federal indictment.
In the original indictment a federal grand jury charged in counts 1 through 10 — receipt of child pornography — that Skipper knowingly received digital and computer images in files which had been mailed, shipped and transported in interstate and foreign commerce.
According to the indictment, the productions involved the use of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct and were depictions of such conduct.
In count 11 — possession of child pornography — the grand jury charged Skipper knowingly possessed media containing digital and computer images, the production of which involved the use of one or more prepubescent minors or a minor who had not attained 12 years of age engaging in sexually explicit conduct, and which images visually depicted such conduct.
At his 2018 sentencing, count 1 and then counts three through 11 were dismissed.
