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Interlachen Man Sentenced for Child Pornography
Jacksonville, Florida – A 40-year-old Interlachen man was sentenced to 7 years and 6 months in federal prison for receiving child pornography over the internet, according to court documents.
On March 22, United States District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan handed down the sentence to Franklin Stuart King, who was also ordered to serve a life term of supervision and register as a sex offender upon his release from prison.
King has been in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service since his arrest on October 10, 2013. The sentence brings an end to a lengthy investigation into King’s activities, which began in 2013 when a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agent in Jacksonville started looking into individuals in the area who had access to and/or were trading images and videos depicting child pornography over the internet.
Using specialized software, the agent determined that a host computer using an Internet Protocol (IP) address in Putnam County was hosting images of child pornography using a file-sharing program. The agent made a successful connection to this host computer over the internet and downloaded several images that depicted child pornography.
Further investigation revealed that the subscriber information traced back to King’s residence in Interlachen. Subsequently, HSI agents and other officers executed a federal search warrant at King’s residence. Agents seized, among other things, King’s computer and other items of electronic media.
A forensic analysis of King’s computer media revealed that it contained a total of 808 images that featured the sexual abuse of minor children.
This case was investigated by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office, the Bradford County Sheriff’s Office, and the United States Marshals Service. It was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney D. Rodney Brown as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.
Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.usdoj.gov/psc.
Key Facts
- State: Florida
- Category: Sex Crimes|Cybercrime|Public Corruption
- Source: DOJ Press Release ↗
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