(WHAS11) - A registered sex offender is facing four counts of possession of child porn.
A Marion County grand jury indicted 45-year-old Sherman Pike, of Lebanon, KY, on four counts of possession of matter portraying a sex performance by a minor, a Class D felony.
Pike, a convicted sex offender, was also indicted on one count of being a persistent felony offender, first degree.
Investigators from Attorney General Jack Conway's Cybercrimes Unit arrested Pike, with assistance from the Marion County Sheriff's Department and Lebanon Police Department, after executing a search warrant at his home on February 1, 2010.
Pike’s arrest and subsequent indictment are the result of an investigation by the Attorney General's Cybercrimes Unit that began in October 2009.
Pike was previously convicted in Tennessee in 1991 of aggravated sexual battery involving a 10-year-old girl and is now a lifetime registered sex offender.
Pike is jailed on a $200,000 cash bond. He will be arraigned in Marion Circuit Court on March 29, 2010.
