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Fairchild Man Arrested for Child Pornography

Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 -- 10:18 AM

-A Fairchild man was arrested for child pornography.

Tod Nicolai, age 48, was arrested for child pornography after his laptop computer was discovered in a ditch of a residence on County Road I near Fairchild. The computer was discovered at the end of April by a woman that lived in the home and she had turned it in to authorities.

The Clark County Sheriff?s Department tried to identify who it belonged to. The computer, which appeared to have sat outside over the winter buried in snow, no longer worked. Authorities decided to use a forensic computer program to try and view personal pictures on the device in order to identify the owner and get the computer back to them.

However, in doing so, over 14,000 pornographic images involving children were found on the computer?s hard drive. The images were mainly of young girls with their ages ranging from 10 years old and younger.

In looking at folders on the computer, many labeled with some variation of ?nicolai,? authorities searched that name and found that Tod Nicolai, a register sex offender, had been convicted in Chippewa County in 1993 for 1st degree sexual assault and convicted in Eau Claire County in 1994 for 1st degree sexual assault of a child in which he had sexually assaulted his 5 year old nieces.

The Clark County Sheriff?s Department discovered that Nicolai currently lived near Fairchild and not far from where the computer was discovered. A warrant was obtained to search his home.

During the search of his home more images of children were found as well as CD?s and DVD?s containing videos of child pornography. During this time, Nicolai told authorities his house had been burglarized which is how his computer ended up in the ditch. He said he didn?t report it stolen because of the images on it.

Nicolai was arrested last week and has 10 counts of possession of child pornography filed against him. He is in the Clark County Jail on a 25,000 dollar cash bond for these charges.

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