BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. — Kevin Christopher Kull, the suspended cybersecurity director for Broward Well being, appeared in Broward bond court docket Saturday following his arrest on 11 felony costs associated to the possession of kid sexual abuse materials.
A choose set Kull’s whole bond at $105,000 — $10,000 for every of the primary 10 counts and $5,000 for the eleventh.
He was additionally ordered to stay on Degree 1 pretrial launch with digital monitoring, don’t have any entry to the web or internet-capable units, and don’t have any contact with minors.
Kull, 41, was arrested Friday morning after an investigation by the Broward Sheriff’s Workplace. An individual who lives with Kull reported discovering SD playing cards, exhausting drives and a cellphone containing disturbing content material whereas making ready their dwelling on the market, deputies mentioned.
A forensic evaluation revealed greater than 7,800 pictures labeled as “youngster erotica,” 178 information of animated youngster sexual abuse materials, and at the very least 10 express information involving actual kids between the ages of 5 and 15, investigators mentioned.
Deputies additionally mentioned they discovered surreptitiously taken images of youngsters at a public pool and movies of Kull engaged in acts with a child-sized intercourse doll.
Throughout a search of Kull’s dwelling within the 4700 block of Northwest Third Road, deputies mentioned they found a smashed laptop computer with the exhausting drives eliminated within the trunk of his car.
A person who described himself as Kull’s quickly to be ex-father in regulation, instructed Native 10’s Michaila Hightower that Kull’s home goes up on the market.
“We didn’t know something,” he mentioned. “We have been caught simply as a lot unexpectedly.”
Kull declined to talk with investigators, based on the arrest report.
Broward Well being mentioned in a press release that Kull has been suspended and that the hospital system is “appalled” by the allegations, which it referred to as “abhorrent and in direct battle with our values.”
If Kull does submit bond, He’s been ordered to put on an ankle monitor and he’s not allowed to entry the web or contact minors.
“That’s a cellphone, a pc, laptop computer, iPad, Apple Watch, tv or gaming system that may entry the web, nest system in his dwelling, a fridge that may entry the web. It doesn’t matter what the gadget is, he can’t entry the web,” the choose said.
He stays within the Broward Important Jail as of Saturday night.
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