A Larimer County jury this week convicted 54-year-old alien abduction author Stan Romanek on one count of sexual exploitation of a child while acquitting him of a second similar charge.
The jury’s verdict comes three years after the arrest of Romanek, a Loveland resident, on child pornography allegations.
Romanek, who has claimed to have been abducted by aliens and is considered an authority within the UFO community, faced two felony charges of sexual exploitation of a child, one alleging he possessed child pornography and another accusing him of distributing child pornography. The trial gained publicity due to Romanek’s status in the UFO community and a in July depicting how his UFO claims have affected his life.
Ultimately, the 12-member jury decided it had enough evidence against Romanek to determine he knowingly possessed child pornography on his computer, but that he did not knowingly disseminate the illicit images and videos through an internet file-sharing program.
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