Harvard man gets 4.5-year prison term for possessing sexually explicit video of child

A Harvard man pleaded guilty this month to possessing a sexually explicit video of a child younger than 13 and was sentenced to four and 1/2 years in prison.Nicholas A. Lopez, 45, pleaded guilty on Nov. 6 to one count of possessing child sex abuse material, a Class 2 felony, according to the order signed by Judge Mark Gerhardt in the McHenry County courthouse.Lopez was arrested and made a first court appearance in February, when Judge Cynthia Lamb ordered him detained pretrial in the county jail. In her order, the judge said Lopez was a threat to the community. He “creates an appetite for the continual production of this illegal content,” the judge said.Lopez was initially charged with possessing 10 separate videos of child sex abuse depicting children younger than 13, records show. Lopez had “numerous other” sexually explicit ”videos, files, and photographs of minors, some under 13, some under 18 years of age," the judge said. “Additional devices analyzed contained hundreds, if not th