Crime & Safety

Tattoo Face Kiddie Porn Guy's Brother Says He Only Glimpsed Child Sex Video For Less Than A Second

That second cost the Crest Hill man a felony and put him on the sex offender registry for the rest of his life.

A Crest Hill man said a brief glimpse of child pornography downloaded and watched by his brother caught him a felony conviction and a spot on the state’s sex offender registry for the rest of his life.

“Not even a second,” Levi Castro, 30, said of the amount of child pornography he saw on a computer screen in the bedroom he shared with his tattoo-faced little brother, Andrew Castro, 27.

Levi Castro said the video showed “children” having sex.

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Levi Castro pleaded guilty in April to possessing child pornography. Judge Sarah Jones sentenced him to three years probation.

As part of his plea deal, Levi Castro agreed to testify against his brother. He did that Friday, and told of Andrew Castro downloading and watching child pornography in a bedroom of their parents’ Theodore Street home.

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After they were taken into custody last year, 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 did not mention anything in his testimony about abducting and raping a baby, or killing the child’s mother. Andrew Castro’s attorney, Timothy Specht, said prosecutors plan to play a video of his client speaking with detectives about a “fantasy or conspiracy.”

The trial was scheduled to continue next month.

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