A 31-year-old man from Lake City has been found guilty of transporting child pornography over the Internet.
Robert Lamar Starling faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 5 years, up to 20 years, in federal prison and a potential life term of supervision.
According to court documents, beginning in September 2013, FBI agents executed a series of search warrants on several email accounts around the country and determined that a particular user in Lake City, Florida had uploaded images of child pornography to the Internet, using an account on a photo sharing site.
Further investigation traced the account back to a residence in Lake City, where Starling resided.
On May 1, 2014, FBI agents and other law enforcement officers executed a federal search warrant at the residence. Starling was not at the residence, but was located later that morning driving his golf cart at the Suwannee Music Park & Campground in Live Oak.
During an interview at his campsite, Starling stated that he had produced pornographic images of several prepubescent children. Subsequent analyses of Starling’s laptop computer revealed that it contained more than 600 videos depicting child pornography.
This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office, the Suwannee County Sheriff’s Office, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, and the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.
It is another case brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.
Robert Lamar Starling has been detained since his arrest on May 1, 2014.
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Key Facts
- State: Florida
- Category: Sex Crimes
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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