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Colorado Sex Offender Faces Child Pornography Charge

DENVER (AP) - A convicted sex offender in Colorado faces new charges of possessing and distributing child pornography.

Colorado-based U.S. Attorney John Walsh and James Yacone of the FBI say 32-year-old Jon Christopher Baker was charged Tuesday. Authorities say they found 30,000 images and 1,400 videos of child pornography on Baker's hard drive.

Baker is due in court Thursday for a preliminary and detention hearing. If convicted, Baker faces up to 20 years in prison and $250,000 in fines.

An undercover FBI agent in Maryland discovered Baker allegedly distributing child pornography using a file-sharing program in February. Agents sent Baker's information to Colorado after his IP address determined he was in Denver.

Baker was convicted of child sexual exploitation in 1998 in Colorado Springs. It wasn't immediately clear if Baker has a lawyer.

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