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Police: 3 elderly Seattle brothers arrested on child pornography charges

Allison Sundell
KING-TV, Seattle
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SEATTLE -- Police found countless images and videos of child pornography, toys and girls' clothing along with detailed notes about child-sex abuse and torture in a North Seattle home where three brothers lived for decades, according to police. 

King County charged Charles Emery, 82, Thomas Emery, 80, and Edwin Emery, 79, with possession of child pornography, according to the Seattle Police Department. 

A family member alerted police after discovering materials depicting sexual abuse of a child while cleaning the suspects' home, according to a statement from the Seattle police department. 

During a search of the home, Seattle Police’s Internet Crimes Against Children Section found children’s clothing that looked like it had been used, including shoes, socks, and underwear, images of child sexual abuse, and graphic descriptions of extreme harm to children.

"The defendants have no known conviction history, but are charged with collecting images depicting the misery of sexually abused children to satiate their deeply rooted deviant interests,” the King County Prosecutor’s Office said in court documents, the Seattle Times reported. 

According to the Seattle Times, investigations were ongoing Sunday as authorities searched other properties associated with the brothers “for the presence of child exploitation materials and evidence of kidnapping, abuse, and child homicide,” the charges said. 

 

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