Battle Ground man accused in child porn case

A Battle Ground man appeared in Clark County Superior Court on Monday on suspicion of having, viewing and dealing child pornography involving infants and toddlers.

Dean Gordon Sizemore, 48, faces charges of 10 counts each of possession of depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, viewing depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct and dealing depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.

Judge Robert Lewis on Monday held him in the Clark County Jail in lieu of $150,000 bail. He is scheduled to be arraigned on the charges Friday.

Lewis said Sizemore doesn’t qualify for a court-appointed attorney.

Investigators found hundreds of images of physical and sexual abuse of children younger than 10 on Sizemore’s laptop, according to a court affidavit by Clark County sheriff’s Detective Jared Stevens. Some of the images depicted the physical and sexual abuse of infants, Stevens wrote.

A Homeland Security Investigations special agent contacted the sheriff’s department in May regarding child pornography intercepted by a detective with the Oregon Interagency Child Exploitation Prevention Team from an Internet Protocol address in Clark County.

Sheriff’s deputies served a search warrant in June at Sizemore’s residence in Battle Ground and seized Sizemore’s computers, where they found hundreds more images of child pornography, Stevens wrote.

Sizemore admitted that he had been downloading child pornography on his computer, Stevens wrote.

He said it “just creeped in” and was “such a huge distraction,” according to Steven’s affidavit.

Sizemore works in medical support at the VA Portland Health Care System, according to court records.