Little Rock, Arkansas- “They said it was across from the high school,” says Gary Turner. He says he didn’t know whose house police raided or what the suspect looked like.
Well, it is a blue house on Knoxville in Russellville where William Everett Phillips, 42, lives with his mother. He’s the focal point of a federal and state investigation into child pornography.
“And now that it has happened, I want to make sure he’s nowhere around my kids,” says Turner.
Phillips lives across the street from Russellville High School. When state and local police raided the house, they found hundreds of VHS tapes, DVDs and magazines of adult and child porn.
Russellville Police Officer Steve Barker is responsible for keeping track of the city’s sex offenders. So the question to him is; was Phillips buying or selling child porn?
Barker says, “My understanding is that he was doing both, that’s my understanding based on his statement to the postal inspectors. Why he was arrested with state charges is because we found child porn in his bedroom.”
So the next question I asked Barker was; did Phillips say why he liked child pornography? “He said after he had looked at so much pornography, I guess over the years, you get desensitized is the way he put it. And he branched off into child porn two years ago,” says Barker.
Barker says they questioned Phillips about having sex with minors, but he denied it repeatedly.
As for Turner, he lives no more than a hundred yards behind Phillips. Turner says he’s taking no chance with his kids. “It really concerns me, but it does say in the paper that he’s not eligible to live at his house. So it really bothers me.”