Paroled sex offender arrested downloading child pornography at New Britain auto repair shop: DA

A Bensalem police officer was running an undercover computer program to identify devices in the county that were using the BitTorrent Peer2Peer (P2P) file-sharing protocol to download and share child pornography when he found himself using a device at 749 Butler Ave. in New Britain on June 20, according to a criminal complaint filed with the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office.

Dozens of files were downloaded from the device, including videos of children as young as six years old engaging in sexual acts, the criminal complaint says.

On June 26, Comcast confirmed that the IP address was a car repair shop called Rissi Automotive, where 44-year-old Timothy Kane worked as a mechanic.

Records on the PSP’s Megan’s Law website show Kane has addresses in Doylestown, Plymouth Meeting and New Britain. In 2011, he was convicted of possession of child pornography; Aid.

On Friday, Sept. 27, a search warrant was executed at Rissi Automotive, where Kane was the company’s only employee and had opened the business that morning, the criminal complaint states. An HP laptop found in the back office and used by mechanics contained child porn files, the complaint says.

Two USB sticks were found in Kane’s toolbox. Kane admitted to investigators multiple times that he used the HP laptop to download child pornography over the BitTorrent network without his colleagues and employer knowing, police said.

Kane also said he copies the child pornography he downloads from the computer onto the USB sticks in the toolbox. When he was the only one in the store in the morning or late at night, he used his laptop to look at the child porn he had downloaded, the complaint says.

Kane also said he uses the company’s computer because he cannot access child pornography on his phone because it is monitored as a condition of his probation.

Kane was charged with child sexual abuse/dissemination (second offense), sexual abuse/possession of child pornography (second offense), and criminal use of a communications facility.

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