ROCHESTER, Minn. – A Rochester man, Rithvik Hari, 26, pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography. The images were of adults and children as young as 8. The plea was a negotiate deal – no additional jail time. A judge has yet to accept the deal. Hari’s arrest was one of three in January in an investigation into peer-to-peer swapping on an online network. The cases were otherwise unrelated, and it was unlikely that Hari personally knew the other men. The other pleas:
> Scott Collette, 58, pleaded not guilty to downloading videos of boys as young as 8
> Morgan Young, 60, pleaded not guilty to possessing a collection of images and videos of children ranging in age from infancy to 8.