Floyd M. Thompson, 60, a former postmaster at the Elberfeld post office in Evansville, Indiana, was sentenced to 63 months in federal prison for possessing and receiving sexually explicit material involving a minor.
According to court documents, law enforcement began investigating Thompson in June 2013, when an undercover member of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Southern Indiana Child Exploitation Task Force connected with a computer that was allegedly sharing sexually-explicit images depicting young children.
After downloading a number of these files from the user, investigators traced the online activity to a home in Evansville, where Thompson was residing. A federal search warrant was executed in August 2013, at Thompson’s Evansville home, and federal agents interviewed Thompson and took his computer equipment into custody.
A preliminary forensic examination of these computers revealed thousands of images and videos of child pornography depicting young girls between the ages of 3 and 12 years old.
Thompson is being held at Volunteers of America in Evansville and will self-surrender when notified by the Bureau of Prisons. He faces a lifetime of supervised release after serving his sentence.
This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, and the Evansville Police Department. The protection of children from sexual predators is one of our highest priorities, said FBI Special Agent in Charge W. Jay Abbott.
Floyd M. Thompson was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge Richard Young. 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.
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Key Facts
- State: Indiana
- Category: Sex Crimes
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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