Lake Bluff Man Arrested in Child Porn Crackdown

A Lake Bluff man was the 17th person arrested on child pornography charges in Attorney General
Lisa Madigan’s Operation Glass House, a statewide crackdown on child porn traffickers.

Ian O’Donohoe, 39, was arrested Saturday by North Chicago police, accused of downloading and
trading child pornography on the Internet, according to the attorney general’s office.

O’Donohoe was charged with two counts of aggravated possession of child pornography,
punishable by up to seven years in prison, and three counts of possession of child pornography,
punishable by up to five years in prison.

Bond was set at $75,000.

“Possession of child pornography is an unimaginably horrific crime. These offenders are trading
images online and even worse, videos showing children who have been horribly abused and
victimized,” Madigan said in a press release announcing the arrest. “But the same technology used
to download and send out these illegal images is now being used by my investigators to track and
arrest these offenders.”

Madigan announced the initative against child pornography traffickers in late August. Investigators
find child pornographers using the Internet protocol address that each computer is assigned when it
accesses the Internet. As of Jan. 3, trading of child pornography images and videos was seen on
5,000 Illinois IP addresses by the attorney general’s investigators, according to the office of the
attorney general.

A total of 24,751 sex offenders are listed on the Illinois Sex Offender Registry, and 573 of them
reside in Lake County, according to the registry.