Alabama man hit with more than 6,500 child porn charges

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An Alabama man has been jailed for allegedly running a child pornography production operation involving at least ten children from the area in which he lives, resulting in more than 6,500 charges

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Jeffery Dale Hunt, 50, of Cherokee, was indicted Friday on 6,547 counts of child pornography involving multiple children and his bail has been set at $10 million cash.

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"I don't know that he'll ever see the outside of a jail again unless it's from a recreational yard or going to court,"

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Hunt was arrested this week while free on bond from a previous arrest on child pornography charges

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"The detective handling the case is having to go through now and unfortunately view every one of these images on every device,”

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An indictment returned this week included 4,378 counts of possession of child pornography and 2,169 counts of producing child porn

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Authorities are still investigating to determine how many total images are involved, since some could be duplicates. Under Alabama law, multiple felony charges can result from a single image if it's stored on more than one device.

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Hunt, whose jobs included working at a home improvement store, was charged with having more than 2,200 images of child pornography last year. He re-arrested following the indictment this week

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