A Roanoke County grand jury on Friday handed down 65 felony indictments against a man who police say sodomized his 8-year-old son, allowed other men to do the same and captured the acts on film.

In addition, police say the Catawba man possessed multiple pornographic images of other children, and investigators are working to determine the origin of those images.

The Catawba man, who is in his 40s, is not being identified by The Roanoke Times in order to avoid identifying his son.

Roanoke County police Lt. Chuck Mason said his department was alerted to the case on Sept. 29, 2004, when they were contacted by authorities in Harlingen, Texas. Harlingen police told Roanoke County police that a Texas man had pawned a laptop in that area and that the pawn shop owner had discovered child pornography on the computer.

Texas police traced the computer to a Harlingen man, who they say they believe had corresponded with the Roanoke County man via the Internet and had traveled to the Roanoke County man's house, police said.

Mason said that during that visit, the Roanoke County man allowed the Texas man to perform oral sex with his young son.

Roanoke County police executed a search warrant on the Roanoke County house and confiscated two computers, compact discs, DVDs and videotapes, Mason said. He said pornographic images of children were also found at that home.

Roanoke County Detective Adam Thompson identified a third adult male pictured in the pornographic images as an Austinburg, Ohio, man. Investigators believe the Ohio man also corresponded with the Catawba man over the Internet and visited the Roanoke County house, where he, too, was allowed to sodomize the boy.

Mason said both the Texas man and the Ohio man have been charged with crimes in their own states, but Roanoke County police have issued warrants for both men in Virginia. He declined to identify the men because the Virginia warrants have not been executed.

Mason said the Texas man will be charged in Virginia with 16 counts of taking indecent liberties with a minor, 10 counts of forcible sodomy of a minor and four counts of manufacturing child pornography. He did not yet know what Virginia warrants will be obtained for the Ohio man.

The Roanoke County man has been in custody in the Roanoke County/Salem Jail since the beginning of the investigation, but he was slammed with 65 felony charges Friday.

Those charges are: one count of manufacturing child pornography, one count of taking indecent liberties with a minor, eight counts of forcible sodomy of a minor and 55 counts of possession of child pornography.

Mason said the possession counts stem from the many images of different children found on the computers. He said the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children is working with Roanoke County police to try to cross-reference the pictures of unidentified children with those in their database.

Police do not yet know whether those other pictures were passed down through the Internet or whether they were manufactured locally.

Mason did not know whether any other adults were pictured in the images.

The 8-year-old boy has been removed from the home by a child protective worker from the Department of Social Services, Mason said. He said the boy has siblings, but none of them was living in the home when their father was arrested.

This is the second case in Roanoke County within the past year involving a father charged with sexually assaulting his son and capturing it on film. Last month, a former Roanoke Valley firefighter pleaded guilty to 38 felony charges involving his teenage son.

He is scheduled to be sentenced in March and faces the possibility of hundreds of years in prison.