Central Oregon men arrested on child pornography charges
Published 12:00 am Thursday, December 22, 2016
- Peter Davis (Submitted photo)
Two Central Oregon men have been arrested on suspicion of manufacturing and trading child pornography.
Jeffrey Worley, of Madras, became the target of an Oregon State Police investigation after Google and AOL reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that Worley had shared child pornography using AOL and Gmail accounts. According to a search warrant affidavit filed Dec. 13, Worley, 54, shared the photos from the email addresses jeffreyworley69@gmail.com and wantahavefun69@aol.com.
Worley had allegedly used the accounts to send or receive at least three sexually explicit photos involving children, one being 3 to 4 years old and another being an infant, the affidavit states. The warrant authorized the search of data from those email addresses.
Oregon State Police executed the warrant Monday at Worley’s Madras home. He was arrested the same day.
While searching Worley’s property, investigators suspected that Worley was trading child pornography over the internet with Grover Dean Cockrum, 62, of Three Rivers, south of Sunriver. Police executed a search warrant on Cockrum’s home at 7 p.m. Monday, and found child pornography, according to court documents.
According to charging documents, both men were trading and creating child pornography.
Worley has been booked in the Jefferson County jail and charged with felony counts of first-degree sodomy, using a child in a display of sexually explicit conduct and 10 counts of first-degree encouraging child sexual abuse. He had bond set at $1 million and has an arraignment hearing scheduled Friday.
According to charging documents, Worley visually recorded himself having sex with a female child under age 12 between April 2011 and Monday.
Cockrum was booked in the Deschutes County jail on Tuesday and has been charged with felony counts of first-degree sodomy, first-degree sexual assault, using a child in a display of sexually explicit conduct, two counts of first-degree encouraging child sexual abuse and two counts of first-degree sexual abuse. According to charging documents, between Jan. 1 and Monday, Cockrum video recorded himself having sex with a female child under 12 and distributed the recordings to others. Grover was arraigned Wednesday.
Around the same time OSP was investigating Worley and Cockrum, the agency also was looking into a Bend man who was allegedly involved in child pornography. On Sept. 26, Skype reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that Peter Jason Davis, of Bend, had used the video chat app to receive child pornography. Davis’ alleged criminal conduct is not connected to that of Worley and Cockrum.
OSP, the Bend Police Department and the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office executed a warrant at Davis’ residence Tuesday night, and found him in possession of child pornography. Davis, 37, was booked in the Deschutes County jail and has been charged with eight counts of first-degree encouraging child sexual abuse for duplicating photos depicting child sex abuse between June 1 and Tuesday.
Davis was arraigned Wednesday in Deschutes County Circuit Court.
— Reporter: 541-383-0376, awieber@bendbulletin.com
Editor’s note: This article has been corrected. The original version misstated the city of residence of Grover Dean Cockrum. The Bulletin regrets the error.