Now Buddy Jones is standing trial this week, accused of sexual exploitation of a child, while he awaits another trial on charges of first-degree murder.

The jury is expected to get the case today of eight photos found in his nightstand. Prosecutor Kevin O’Connor has had police and medical witnesses describe the photos, which they said were of a young girl with her genitals exposed.

Defense lawyer Brad Sylvester told the jury that the pictures belonged to Jones’ sister’s boyfriend, who also lived in the house.

Jones is also charged with first-degree murder in the disappearance of Michelle Rawls in July 2006. Jones was arrested and charged with her murder nine months later. Her body was never found.

When police were searching the house where Jones lived, they discovered the Polaroid photos of the girl, along with a Polaroid camera and pictures from a child porn Web site that showed another young female in similar poses. O’Connor said authorities have not been able to locate the girl in the pictures found at Jones’ house.

Bennett would accept a guilty plea to aggravated indecent liberties, reduced from rape, if Nelson would turn over his computer so authorities could search it without having to obtain a warrant. Bennett agreed not to charge him with extra crimes, but he could use anything he found to argue for a harsher sentence. Nelson complied.

The search turned up 30,000 sexually explicit photographs of minors — the most ever found in Wichita.

At sentencing today, Nelson’s lawyers asked for probation. After hearing about the child porn collection, Judge Joseph Bribiesca sent Nelson to prison.