Benny Lyle Hill, a longtime public address announcer for Kelso youth sports, was sentenced Friday to 32 months in prison and 15 years of supervised release for possession of child pornography.

Hill, 60, of Kelso was sentenced in U.S. Disctice Court in Tacoma by Judge Ronald B. Leighton, who said, “I cannot overstate the revulsion in our community, nor the serious and insidious impact on our culture, or how these offenses raise levels of fear in our society.”

According to court documents, agents found more than 1,300 CDs of child pornography when they searched Hill’s home March 12, 2008.

Investigators were led to Hill when they found his e-mail address “Stoned coach” while investigating another suspect in Fairfield, Conn. Hill, former announcer for Kelso High School boys’ and girls’ basketball games and Babe Ruth baseball coach, was contacted by agents using the e-mail address and posing as the Connecticut man.

The man had been trading child pornography over the Internet with Hill, court records show.

Agents said Hill sent them more than 100 images of child pornography, along with some nonsexual photos of himself.

Investigators used Yahoo subscriber information to narrow their search to Kelso.

In asking for a 97 month sentence, Assistant U.S. Attorney David Reese Jennings wrote to the court “Benny Lyle Hill is sexually fixated with children. He has downloaded, stored, traded and viewed countless still and video images of child pornography. He amassed a gargantuan collection of child pornography, one so large that the agents abandoned efforts to continue counting all the images and videos Hill had collected.”

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