Andrew Lastinger, Production of Child Pornography, Georgia 2010

A Moultrie, Georgia man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for his role in producing child pornography, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Michael J. Moore of the Middle District of Georgia.

Andrew Lastinger, 43, was sentenced on an unspecified date after pleading guilty to a one-count information charging him with producing child pornography.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006.

Lastinger's guilty plea followed an investigation initiated by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children regarding a significant number of child pornography images uploaded to a social networking Internet site from an email address registered to Lastinger.

FBI special agents executed a search warrant at Lastinger's residence and seized numerous items of electronic evidence.

During the execution of the warrant, Lastinger admitted to uploading the child pornography images as well as to molesting and producing child pornography images of a minor boy, and attempting to produce child pornography of another minor boy.

Subsequent forensic examinations of computers and other electronic media seized from Lastinger's residence confirmed the existence of over 100,000 images of child pornography, child pornography images of the minor boy produced by Lastinger, and of Lastinger attempting to take a sexually explicit video of the other minor boy.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jim Crane of the Middle District of Georgia and Trial Attorney Mi Yung Park of the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS).

The case was investigated by the FBI; the Colquitt County, Ga., Sheriff's Office Criminal Investigations Divisions; and CEOS's High Technology Investigative Unit.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/georgia-man-sentenced-25-years-prison-production-child-pornography