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Cameron Dean Bates, a 46-year-old resident of Port Saint Lucie in St. Lucie County, Florida, has been found guilty of all 18 counts of an indictment that charged him with receipt and distribution of child pornography via the internet.
On March 7, 2013, a Ft. Pierce federal jury delivered the verdict, marking the end of an eight-day trial presided over by U.S. District Judge K. Michael Moore.
Immediately following the guilty verdict, Judge Moore remanded Bates to the custody of the U.S. Marshall Service. Sentencing has been scheduled for June 3, 2013, in Ft. Pierce, where Bates faces a mandatory minimum of five years in jail and up to 20 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release on each of the eight counts of receipt of child pornography and the one count of distribution of child pornography.
Bates also faces up to ten years imprisonment on the eight counts of accessing child pornography and the one count of possession of child pornography.
According to testimony at trial, detectives from the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office and members of the South Florida Internet Crimes against Children (ICAC) Task Force began an Internet investigation in March 2011 using Peer-to-Peer (P2P) software.
During this investigation, law enforcement found that between December 2010 and June 19, 2012, several internet protocol (IP) addresses linked to Cameron Dean Bates in both St. Lucie County and Palm Beach County were used to download and share child pornography files.
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