Prosecutors in Child Pornography Case to Seize Residence

Kentucky federal prosecutors don't just want to put Joseph Robert Leitner in prison for years -- they want his house. Leitner pleaded guilty last week to charges that he possessed more than 30,000 images of child pornography, and agreed to give up his home, which he used "as a protective shield to allow his criminal activity to go undetected," said a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office. It's the first time that prosecutors in the Eastern District of Kentucky have seized a home in a child pornography investigation.