He is into them…

An Anchorage man who police say possessed thousands of images of child pornography — including some that an investigator said were the worst he’s seen — was sentenced Friday in Anchorage Superior Court to three years in prison.Anthony Stanford, 50, was arrested after a September 2005 investigation found almost 4,000 images and 300 videos of child pornography involving children of all ages, including infants, on his work and home computers. It was a stockpile of still photos and short movies that he had been collecting since he first got online in the early 1990s, he told police in a video interview shown in court.

Police said they matched 1,200 of the images with identifiable child victims through the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Detective Kevin Vandegriff said Stanford’s collection was the most disturbing he has come across in his years in the Crimes Against Children unit. Videos included young children bound and blindfolded.

Stanford
, a married man and father of five stepchildren, had no prior misdemeanor or felony convictions. He pleaded no contest to two counts of possessing child pornography in February.

In the video interview with police taped after he was charged, Stanford said he started liking pornography in the sixth grade. He would go to the local dump in Twin Falls, Idaho, to look for porn, he said.

“I download porn from A to Z. So, if it’s illegal, it’s probably in there,” Stanford said in the video. “It’s out there and it’s free, I don’t see what’s wrong with looking at it.”

In the video, Stanford said, “If I ever get back to my computer, I’ll probably do the same thing again. I got caught because of a stupid mistake.”

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