A Geneva man has been sentenced to 10 years of supervised release for possessing child pornography.
Horace Daniels, 71, of Geneva, was convicted of possession of child pornography and sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge David G. Larimer.
According to Assistant U.S. Attorney Marisa J. Miller, who handled the case, the defendant downloaded and distributed child pornography via a peer-to-peer file sharing network.
Law enforcement officials downloaded images of child pornography from the defendant on 10 dates in August and September 2012, during an undercover investigation.
Officers then executed a search warrant at the defendant’s home in Geneva, where they recovered items of digital media containing images of children, many of whom were under the age of 12, engaged in sexually explicit conduct, and many of which depicted acts of violence.
The case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.
The sentencing is the culmination of an investigation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security Investigations, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge James C. Spero.
The recommended sentencing guideline range for the defendant was 97 to 120 months in prison.
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