Tattoo Face Kiddie Porn Guy Guilty of Possessing Kiddie Porn

A tattoo-faced Crest Hill man was convicted of possessing child pornography but beat a stiffer charge that could have put him away for as long as 30 years.

As it stands after the verdict handed down Friday by Will County Judge Sarah Jones, 28-year-old Andrew Castro can get off with a sentence of probation.

Judge Jones found Castro not guilty of disseminating child pornography, a class X felony.

Castro and his brother, Levi Castro, 30, were arrested after the cops raided the Theodore Street home where they lived with their parents in December 2014.

After they were taken into custody, the Castro brothers allegedly confided to the cops that they batted around the idea of abducting a young girl but were arrested before actually doing anything about it. An investigator with the Will County State’s Attorney’s High Technology Crimes Unit testified about the scheme during the Castros’ bond hearing last year, an official said.

The investigator told how the Castro brothers “discussed possibly kidnapping a child, a baby, sexually assaulting the baby and then killing, or disposing of the baby, and if the mother of the child got in the way, killing the mother,” the official said.

Levi Castro scored a sentence of probation after pleading guilty in April to possessing child pornography. As part of his plea deal, he had to testify against his little brother.

During his testimony, Levi Castro said he did not actually possess any child pornography, but instead merely caught a fleeting glimpse while his little brother was watching it on a computer in the bedroom they shared.

“Not even a second,” Levi Castro said of the amount of child pornography he saw.

That half second or so of child pornography was enough to put Levi Castro on the state’s sex offender registry for the rest of his life.