Enterprise man acquitted of all child porn charges

An Enterprise man broke down in tears after a jury found him not guilty of 14 counts of possession of child pornography, while the woman who turned him in to the police sat quietly by his side.

David Alan Reeves was found not guilty after a five-man, eight-woman jury deliberated two hours following a two-day trial in Enterprise that ended Feb.13.

Reeves had been free on $210,000 bond following his January 2014 arrest by the Enterprise Police Department after the EPD Criminal Investigations Unit received forensic analysis results from the Alabama Bureau of Investigation revealing multiple pornographic images on Reeve’s laptop computer.

Whether at least 14 videos containing child pornography were on Reeves computer was not the question. All parties agreed that it was and the jury was shown each of the 14 videos, some involving females as young as 4 years old, during the trial.

The dispute was over how the child pornography got on the computer that Reeves had been given by a former neighbor in exchange for some work Reeves had done for him.

Reeves himself downloaded the videos onto the laptop after he received it, said Assistant District Attorney John Folmar.

“Mr. Reeves didn’t have any knowledge of what was on there,” countered Reeve’s attorney Bill Morgan.

“The facts are simple,” Morgan told the court. “The material is difficult to look at and somebody should have to answer for it being here, but Mr. Reeves is not that person.”

Morgan said that Reeves did not have any knowledge of what was on the computer when he got it from his neighbor, who is now deceased, and that he had only owned the computer for a short time. “Once he got it to his house, he discovered that it didn’t work and he did not have Internet access at the time,” Morgan said.

Reeves’ wife, Kimberly, discovered the images on the computer in the early morning hours of Nov. 3, 2012, and called the Enterprise Police. Reeves had been asleep in bed at their 6808 County Road 606, Lot 1, home at the time.

Morgan said that Kimberly Reeves had gotten the computer to operate, found the pornographic images involving little girls under 11 years old with adult men, and called the police. “The material is what it is—horrifying and disgusting,” Morgan told the court. “Someone should have to answer to it but not Mr. Reeves. The police simply arrested the wrong man. Mr. Reeves is not the person responsible for having that material on that computer.”

Kimberly Reeves, transported to court Thursday by police after failing to appear despite being subpoenaed by the state, testified about what had happened the night of Nov. 3, 2012.

“I found child pornography on the laptop in our home and I know that I did not put it on there,” she said. “I did not pull up the images—they just popped up. I clicked on my husband’s user icon and they just popped up.”

Kimberly Reeves said she did not know who could have downloaded the images, nor did she remember how long they had owned the computer or how often her husband used the computer. “Me, I used it every day but that was just to download my music—I listen to my music every day if I can,” she said. “I’m not real good with dates. I don’t keep up with dates.”

Kimberly Reeves said she and her husband had been drinking throughout the day prior to her discovering the images on the computer and told the court that she had been sexually molested by her biological grandfather when she was a child. Consequently, she said, when saw the images, “I did what my daddy raised me to do. When you see something like that you call the police.”

Upon questioning by Folmar, Kimberly Reeves said she was a convicted sexual offender but Morgan objected to the relevance of that admission and the judge asked the jury to disregard it. Kimberly Reeves is a registered sexual offender convicted Nov. 12, 2013. The victim was an 11-year-old male.