REXBURG — A 29-year-old man was arrested in Rexburg after police say he downloaded child pornography, and researched if he would get in trouble for it.

Tyler Waite is charged with one count of willfully possessing or accessing child sexually exploitative material.

Court documents say on July 10, 2024, Madison County Sheriff’s detectives were investigating a CyberTip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, that had been reported to them from Discord, a voice, video and text communication service.

The report stated that a Discord user had uploaded a file of “apparent child pornography.”

Police reports say the image showed a child between 10 and 12 years old being raped by an adult man.

Detectives traced the IP address associated with the file to an apartment complex

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