New Jersey Man Jailed for Child Pornography

Bangor, Maine – Newell Mowry, 66, of Paterson, New Jersey, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison and 10 years of supervised release for possessing child pornography.

As he reentered the United States from Canada in October 2017, Mowry was found to possess a laptop computer containing numerous child pornography files, including files that depicted children under the age of 12.

Mowry was previously convicted in New York in 1999 for possessing child pornography, which made him subject to a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years.

He was also ordered to pay $32,500 in restitution to four victims and a $5,000 special assessment to the Domestic Trafficking Victims’ Fund.

Mowry pleaded guilty on March 21, 2018. The investigation was conducted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 to combat child sexual exploitation and abuse.

Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.