Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced his office obtained guilty pleas in two unrelated child pornography cases in Vermilion County. 22 year old Daton J. Books of Danville pleaded guilty to dissemination of child pornography. He was sentenced to nine years in prison. Books was arrested by the Danville Police Department in August 2021 in the 900 block of Harmon Street.

49 year old Mark Kerkering of Henning who pleaded guilty to dissemination of child pornography. He was sentenced to eight years in prison. In November 2021, Raoul’s investigators, with the assistance of the Vermilion County Sheriff’s Department and the Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville Police Department, conducted a search of a residence in the 200 block of North Loren Street in Henning and arrested Kerkering after discovering evidence of child pornography.