John Mcmurtrey, 59, has been charged with 10 counts of felony possession of child pornography.

On June 15, the Bonneville County Sheriff’s Office received 38 cyber tips from the National Center of Missing and Exploited Children reporting “an individual who allegedly uploaded images of child sexual abuse material to Microsoft Bing,” the probable cause affidavit said.

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Officers brought Mcmurtrey in to the Sheriff’s Office for an interview. When asked why Mcmurtrey thought he was there, he said “that it was probably because of pornography,” the affidavit said.

During the interview, Mcmurtrey said he used a desktop computer in the basement of his home to search for teen images of child sexual abuse material.

Mcmurtrey told the officers he has a pornography addiction and “saw every age.”

Mcmurtrey had reportedly saved more than 16,000 child pornography images to a hard drive officers found in his home.

He is being charged with 10 counts of felony sexual exploitation of a child, the affidavit said. He was taken to Bonneville County Jail with a bond set at $100,000. Sheriff’s Office spokesman Sgt. Bryan Lovell said Mcmurtrey posted the bond Thursday.