Bruce Wayne Lorette, Child Pornography, North Carolina 2013

Raleigh, North Carolina - A North Carolina man has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for child pornography.

On May 13, 2013, Bruce Wayne Lorette, 34, of Leland, pleaded guilty to producing child pornography.

According to the investigation, Lorette was first detected by undercover police who found that he was offering child pornography over a peer-to-peer network.

After executing a search warrant at his Leland residence and the commencement of forensic examination of his computer equipment, investigators learned that Lorette was not merely downloading and offering child pornography for download, but that he was creating child pornography of his own by victimizing an infant.

The sentence, 360 months imprisonment, was handed down by Senior United States District Judge W. Earl Britt on not specified.

The case was part of the Project Safe Childhood initiative, a national program aimed at ensuring that criminals exploiting children are effectively prosecuted by making full use of all available law enforcement resources at every level.

The investigation was led by the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation and Federal Bureau of Investigation, with Assistant United States Attorney Jay Exum prosecuting the case for the United States.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ednc/pr/child-pornographer-sentenced-30-years-federal-prison