Evendale man arrested on child porn charges, accused of collecting images of children from local school
By Kurt Knue
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EVENDALE, Ohio (WLWT) — An Evendale man faces multiple charges related to the possession of child pornography.
Rain Phoenix-Brown, 24, faces charges of pandering obscenity, illegal use of minor nudity material and pandering sexual material involving a juvenile.
Records from the Hamilton County Justice Center indicate that Phoenix-Brown was admitted to the jail on Friday afternoon.
In court documents, police allege that Phoenix-Brown was initially caught with some of the material in his possession in October. His home was then reportedly searched by police in February, where more explicit images and videos of minors were found on his mobile phone, iPad, laptop, and other electronic devices.
In descriptions that were recounted by officers in court documents, the images and videos allegedly depicted the minors, some as young as 4-years-old, engaged in a wide variety of extremely graphic sexual acts with both adults and animals alike.
Additionally, among some of the pictures allegedly found on his devices were children who were verified to attend an unnamed local parochial elementary school — although police did not appear to indicate that they were sexual in nature.
Phoenix-Brown was also reportedly verified by authorities to have been employed at a local children’s toy store, but the court documents did not give any further details.
At least some of the images and videos that were found in Phoenix-Brown’s possession are alleged to have been obtained through people that he met online through platforms such as Telegram and Discord. In one such exchange with another Telegram user that was transcribed within court documents, Phoenix-Brown appeared to repeatedly confess to being sexually attracted to children, even referring to himself at one point as a “pedophile.”
In addition to lots of images depicting real minors, Phoenix-Brown also allegedly possessed numerous images depicting minors engaged in sexual acts that were determined by police to have been AI-generated.
When confronted by officers, Phoenix-Brown allegedly did not deny the charges that he faces, with one police report stating that he “openly admitted he is attracted to children and fantasizes about raping them.”
The case remains under investigation by local police.
Phoenix-Brown is next scheduled to appear in court on March 23.
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