Two weeks after being sentenced on convictions of sexual exploitation of a toddler, a former Kansas State University maintenance worker was back in Riley County District Court Wednesday for a motions hearing.
William Hynek, 63, of Manhattan, was sentenced to 32 months on all three counts at a May 28 hearing for possessing over 8,200 sexually explicit images of children and over 500 GIF videos on his laptop computer, flash drives and an SD card. A detective also examined CDs and floppy disks, finding countless additional images on those storage devices as well.
In court Wednesday, Judge Grant Bannister denied a motion from Hynek’s attorney Chris Biggs for a rehearing. Biggs asserted the court should rehear the case based on misstatements by prosecutors that some of the images had been found on VHS tapes. Assistant Riley County Attorney Christina Trocheck…
Motions by the defense for an appeal and an appeal bond were also denied, but Judge Bannister granted the state’s motion to correct an illegal sentence.
Hynek was remanded back to prison and upon completing his sentence will have lifetime post-release supervision and is required to register with the state of Kansas as a sex offender.
