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Rodwell initiated a conversation with the user. The conversation, which lasted about one hour, revolved around setting up a sexual encounter between Rodwell and a three-year-old child in San Francisco.

In her decision read aloud in court Thursday, the judge said the conversation begins with Rodwell asking if the mother is “active” with her child — meaning assaulting her. The conversation moves quickly into a graphic discussion about the rape of the three-year-old child.

Rodwell tells the other user — who he believes to be a woman — he can access military flights to fly to the San Francisco area. He suggested they meet somewhere neutral, to “get to meet and chat for a little so we gain each other’s trust, we both have a lot to lose.”

The conversation ends with Rodwell saying he will e-mail the “woman” with his flight number. That e-mail was never sent and the arrangements were not followed through. Beagle states he did not receive any further communication from Rodwell between the date of the conversation on May 21, 2015 and his arrest on June 4, 2015.

From the computer seized from Rodwell, police found five videos and 33 unique images depicting child pornography. All images and videos clearly depict infants, toddlers and prepubescent children in various stages of undress. Several of them depicted the child being assaulted.

Hastings County Crown attorney Lee Burgess filed a disc with more than 4,000 pages of Internet chat logs showing Rodwell communicated mostly with users who identify themselves as mothers of young children.