Defendant Ordered to Prison for New Child Pornography Violation

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – A repeat offender has been ordered to federal prison for 188 months for a new child pornography violation, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.

Arthur Gregg Hutchins, 67, was previously convicted in 2005 and released from prison in 2012. He was under supervised release when he pleaded guilty to one count of possession of child pornography on June 24, 2013.

Following a lengthy hearing yesterday, Senior U.S. District Judge Hayden Head considered Hutchins’ demonstrated recidivism and the need to protect the public and ordered him to federal prison. The sentence will be served concurrently to a five-year-term of imprisonment ordered for the revocation of his supervised release in the 2005 case.

Hutchins will also serve a new lifetime term of supervised release following his release during which he will have to comply with numerous conditions designed to restrict his access to children and the internet.

In handing down the sentence, the court noted that Hutchins presents a real and ongoing danger to the children of our community. The court considered the evidence seized in the case – the child pornography as well as written communications between Hutchins and other pedophiles.

The investigation was conducted by the FBI and the Corpus Christi Police Department’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force (ICAC). Assistant United States Attorney Lance Duke is prosecuting the case, which was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.

Hutchins came to the attention of law enforcement from a CyberTip received by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) regarding a person who had posted child pornography images online beginning in September 2012. The images were posted to a popular online photo sharing website by a person using an IP address linked to the Corpus Christi area.

The IP address was later traced to the wife of Hutchins. Under supervised release and forbidden to reside near a school, Hutchins did not reside with his wife. The investigation was able to exclude the wife due to her work schedule and conflicting times associated with the online postings of child pornography.

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