Posted: Apr 28, 2014 4:07 PM CDT
Updated: Apr 28, 2014 9:18 PM CDT
CHICAGO (Sun-Times Media Wire) - Former state Rep. Keith Farnham traded child pornography online — and even boasted that he’d molested a 6-year-old girl — according to federal prosecutors.
The Elgin Democrat, 66, emailed to what he believed was a fellow pedophile videos of children who appeared to be as young as six months old being molested, according to a criminal complaint filed Monday.
But the man he allegedly sent the videos to was in fact an undercover Homeland Security investigator, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting.
Farnham, who resigned last month citing undisclosed “health issues,” has not been arrested but is due in court to answer the charges on Wednesday.
He quit shortly after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided his home and state office in Elgin and seized a computer on March 13.
The federal complaint alleges he used a phony name in online chatrooms to trade child porn while at his office and at his home. In one disturbing webchat with the undercover agent in November, he boasted that he’d sexually abused a six-year-old girl, the complaint alleges.
Like many of others in the northwest suburbs, Fred Rosso could hardly believe what he was reading when FOX 32 Political Editor Mike Flannery showed him the 16-page criminal complaint that prosecutors filed in federal court Monday.