Ashby & Beauchamp Federal Child Porn Case Continued To Next Month

William Ashby

Aaron Beauchamp

There’s been another continuance in the federal case against two men arrested on child porn charges in Mercer County. Pre-trial conferences for Aaron Beauchamp of Matherville and William Ashby of East Moline have been pushed back to May 3rd at U.S. District Court in Rock Island.  The two are charged federally with Sexual Exploitation of a Child—punishable by 15 to 30 years in prison upon conviction. The two were originally charged at the state level for incidents involving a 16-year-old juvenile last March. Beauchamp and Ashby remain in U.S. Marshals Service Custody.