Pedophile gets life term in library attack Houston Chronicle Copyright 2012 Houston Chronicle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 01:25 a.m., Friday, June 22, 2012 Michael Joseph Snowden, a 21-year-old repeat sex offender, went to the Freed-Montrose Library in November 2010 to hack in to a computer to look at child pornography and wait for prey.