BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) – Investigators arrested Byron Smith, 35, who allegedly possessed over 100 pornographic images and videos of children ranging from 5-10 years of age.

Investigators say the images and videos showed the young children being raped. Other images seized by investigators showed children between 3-6 years of age being raped or posing in a sexually suggestive manner with their vaginal areas in clear focus.

Smith was identified and tracked using his social media pages and his computer’s IP address.

He was booked into East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on 3 counts of pornography involving juveniles under the age of 13.

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