A federal Court of Appeals has affirmed a Bad Axe man’s conviction on child pornography charges.
David J. Oufnac was sentenced in 2010 to nine years in federal prison after a jury convicted him of one count of possessing child pornography.
Oufnac, 50, was charged after Bad Axe police presented evidence that he stored more than 1,000 pornographic images of children on computer disks, flash drives and a computer hard drive, records show.
On appeal, Oufnac argued that four other people used the computer and prosecutors failed to prove that he was the one who downloaded the images.
Judges Gilbert Stroud Merritt Jr., Danny J. Boggs and Eric L. Clay comprised the appeals court that rejected Oufnac’s claims.
In an unpublished opinion issued Friday, the judges found that there was “ample other evidence” implicating Oufnac.
“First and most importantly, Defendant admitted to both (Bad Axe Police) Detective (Kevin) Knoblock and (Oufnac’s girlfriend) that he owned and recently viewed child pornography,” the judges wrote.
Further, the images were stored in his personal documents file within a password-protected user account and the CDs were created before the other four people knew him, the judges found.
Oufnac currently is being held at the Federal Correctional Institution in Fort Dix, New Jersey, records show.