Man faults 'other self' for porn

A convicted sex offender formerly employed at Primary Children's Medical Center has been arrested and charged with downloading child pornography at work.

But the man says he has multiple personalities, and although he disapproves of child porn himself, one of his other personalities wants to look at it.

Kevin Edward Sutherland, 45, was charged in 3rd District Court with five felony counts of sexual exploitation of a minor. A $50,000 arrest warrant was issued Dec. 7. He was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail Wednesday night. He is scheduled to make his first court appearance today.

The investigation into Sutherland began a little over a year ago when the head of computer security for Intermountain Health Care contacted the Attorney General's Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task force, according to court documents.

By that time, Sutherland had been fired by PCMC. He worked at the hospital from April 1995 until Oct. 26, 2005, court documents state. His last position was in the parent resource center assisting the parents of patients. He never worked with the patients themselves, said Primary spokeswoman Bonnie Midget.

During his tenure, he also worked in food services and the business office, she said.

The security department said Sutherland's computer login was being used to access pornographic sites, including "young naked boys in sexual poses," according to court documents. In September of 2005, Sutherland's computer login was used to access 990 adult and child pornography images, court documents state.

IHC security reported "consistent viewing of adult and child porn images throughout the month and on multiple days. User did unique searches," the document stated.

ICAC agents visited Sutherland's home on Dec. 7, 2005. He wasn't home, but his wife said she had an idea of why the agents were there.

She stated her husband, "is against child pornography and would never do anything to hurt children" and that he would "never access child pornography," according to court documents.

The case took a bizarre twist, however, when Bonnie Sutherland told the agents her husband was being treated by a doctor for a mental illness in which he manifests multiple personalities.

"One of the personalities is a teenage boy," she told investigators, according to court documents.