HUTCHINSON— A Kansas man convicted for downloading hundreds of child pornography videos and who waived the preliminary hearing and entered a “no contest” plea was sentenced Friday to two years and eight months in prison.

Tad Darcy Russell, 36, Hutchinson, was convicted for sexual exploitation of a child.

Police say a detective investigated Russell for several months and testified Russell downloaded child porn videos from a “Peer to Peer” file-sharing program.

After a search warrant on his Hutchinson home, officers seized his computer and found videos involving kids as young as six and eight years of age.