A man has been arrested and charged in Nodaway County for possessing hundreds of videos and photographs of child porn.
The Nodaway County Sheriff’s Office arrested 28-year-old Derek Joseph Oberhauser Wednesday at his mother’s home in Maryville after an investigation that began in April. Oberhauser has been charged in Nodaway county with five felony counts of possession of child pornography.
Court documents state that in April the Child Protection System observed a computer at a Maryville residence use a file sharing program to download known child pornography files. After obtaining a search warrant in May investigator’s seized two computers from the home where three family members lived.
“It was confirmed that one family member was working day shift at their place of employment and a second family member was at high school during the period of time the child pornography files were downloaded,” said Sgt. Jamie Vicker with the Nodaway County Sheriff’s Office, Western Missouri Cyber Crimes Task Force. “The third family member, Derek J. Oberhauser, was unemployed and believed to be home.”
Authorities found around 350 possible child pornography videos and around 300 pictures of possible child porn located on one of the computers that was seized.
“I reviewed the images and videos located and each image and video depicted females between the approximate ages of 3 to 14 involved in sexual acts,” Vicker said.
Investigators found that Oberhauser moved to the address where the computer with child pornography was located on the first of April and left around April 27 after an argument with a family member.
“The downloads occurred between April 14, 2015 – April 21, 2015,” Vicker said. “Before Mr. Oberhauser left, he dismantled and apparently attempted to destroy a desktop computer that was then seized during the search warrant.”
Vicker said during an interview after being read his Miranda rights Oberhauser admitted to downloading child pornography and using it for “personal gratification.”
“Oberhauser also stated that he was sexually attracted to girls under the age of 10 and that he also ‘fantasized’ about having sexual contact with the girls in his fantasy,” Vicker said.
He is currently being held on $100,000.00 cash or corporate surety bond.