Robert Rang, Child Pornography, Pennsylvania 2015

A Coaldale man has been charged with attempting to entice a minor to engage in illegal sexual activities and receiving and possessing child pornography.

According to United States Attorney Peter Smith, Robert Rang, age 25, used a facility of interstate commerce during September and October of 2014, to attempt to persuade and induce a minor to engage in illegal sexual activities.

The complaint also alleges that Rang received and possessed child pornography from September 2014 to December 29, 2014.

Rang appeared yesterday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Karoline Mehalchick in Wilkes-Barre and was ordered to be detained in prison pending a detention hearing scheduled for January 6, 2015.

Rang faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years in prison and a maximum sentence of life in prison if he is convicted of the enticement charge; a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison and a possible maximum sentence of 20 years in prison if he is convicted of the receiving child pornography charge; and a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison if he is convicted of the possession of child pornography charge.

This case was 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.

The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Francis P. Sempa.

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