"We faced 10 years per count, there were nine counts," said Novak. "20/20" correspondent Jim Avila asked Novak what the family was up against. The family hired Ed Novak, a well-respected attorney from a large law firm in downtown Phoenix. The Bandys would soon find out just how serious the charges against Matthew were. "I said, 'What do we do now? Should I contact a lawyer?' said, 'Well, they are felonies that the state takes very serious.'" "I still remember when they were cleaning up and leaving and of course I was still in my pajamas and my bathrobe and my fuzzy slippers," Jeannie Bandy said. Still, it didn't look good for Matt, as police confiscated the computer and left the house that December day. just adult pornography…Playboy-like images."ĭifficult to admit, but not illegal - or so it seemed. "I got the Web site from a bunch of friends at school. He had been sneaking peaks at adult erotic photos on the family computer. Nevertheless, Matthew did have an embarrassing confession. "When they asked me have you ever looked up or uploaded or downloaded erotic images of minors, I was just taken aback and…I said, 'No,'" says Matthew. Yahoo monitors chat rooms for suspicious content and reported that child porn was uploaded from the computer at the Bandys' home address.
According to the warrant, nine images of young girls in suggestive poses were found on the Bandy family computer.
Greg Bandy was handed the search warrant and informed that the central suspect was Matthew. "And then there police officers with guns pointed at me, telling me to get downstairs." "The first thing I thought was, someone's trying to break in our house," Matthew said.
Police officers stormed into the house with guns pointed.
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