BLOOMINGTON – A former Indiana University professor was arrested after authorities reportedly found files of child porn in his online Dropbox folder.
Richard Wilk, 70, of Bloomington, was formerly a Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the anthropology department at IU. He retired in 2017.
He was arrested on Tuesday on a Level 5 felony of possession of child pornography.
According to court documents, on December 13, 2023, detectives with the Bloomington Police Department were alerted by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) that they identified child pornography of a person less than 12 on the Dropbox website.
Officers informed the Dropbox company of this and were provided the specific account information identifying Wilk as a suspect.
Bloomington Police Detectives and officers executed a search warrant at Wilk’s home on Tuesday.
Wilk told police they should be pursuing the producers of child pornography and that he watched child pornography because he was “curious.”
