Sex Offender Arrested In Connection With Having Child Porn At Community College

Friday, November 15, 2013

A man previously convicted of sexual indecency with a child five years ago was arrested again Nov. 8, in connection with having child porn at NorthWest Arkansas Community College, according to a police affidavit filed in the Benton County Circuit Court on Tuesday.

Daniel Keith Kiger, 37, of 16838 S. U.S. 71 in Winslow, was being held Thursday evening at the Benton County Jail in lieu of a $75,000 bond in connection with distributing, possessing or viewing matter depicting sexually explicit conduct involving a child, a class C felony, according to jail records.

This past spring, the college listed Daniel Kiger as a student, according to the college’s website.

Kiger is a registered sex offender who the state lists as a “moderate risk” level, according to the Arkansas Crime Information Center website.

In 2008, Kiger pleaded guilty to having inappropriate sexual involvement with a 14-year-old girl. He was sentenced to three years in prison and three years suspended sentence. Kiger was a youth pastor at the time.

The child pornography was reported to police Oct. 11, according to the probable cause affidavit.

On Oct. 14, a school newspaper employee found Kiger had collected personal information, including addresses and phone numbers, of teenage girls who had recently attended a college fair, according to the affidavit.

The new allegations stem from graphic images on thumb drives.

An employee at the school newspaper where Kiger worked discovered Kiger had two flash drives connected to the school’s computer. Those drives contained photos of partially clad girls between the ages of 6 and 15, according to a probable cause affidavit. Some of the images were explicit, with teenage girls engaged in intercourse, police said in the report.

The thumb drives were turned over to university police, and Kiger later identified the drives as his, police said in the affidavit.

Kiger agreed to a search of his residence, where Washington County deputies seized an iPod, multiple DVDs and a Samsung phone. Police also took Kiger’s laptop with permission during an initial interview with Kiger, according to the affidavit. Police also took the school computer where the flash drives had been found, according to the affidavit.

The Benton County Sheriff’s Office is holding the laptop and other equipment, and Detective Glenn Latham is conducting forensics on the evidence, according to the affidavit. The investigation into Kiger’s electronics could take two months, according to the affidavit.

Kiger had served time at the Washington County Detention Center and the Arkansas Department of Correction, according to the affidavit. Police said in the affidavit he seems to be currently associated with a church and had told co-workers he was a minister.