A convicted pedophile who kept child pornography on his home computer was given a 10-year stayed sentence and ordered to serve 90 days in the Ramsey County workhouse.
Pedophile who had child porn on computer is off to workhouse
Cyrus Amundson, 34, of St. Paul pleaded guilty May 5 to possession of child pornography by a predatory offender. He was convicted in 1997 of molesting a 6-year-old girl.
According to the criminal complaint filed in Ramsey County District Court, police searched Amundson's home in the 1000 block of Beech Street in January after a woman who lived downstairs reported that her apartment had been burglarized. Officers found a picture of a nude child on his computer and pornographic video images of children from ages 9 to 11, and 14 to 16.
District Judge James Clark also ordered Amundson to register as a predatory offender for the rest of his life, abstain from drugs and alcohol, and have no contact with children or access to the Internet.
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