Terry L. Adcock, Child Pornography, Illinois 2014

A 65-year-old Greenville man has pleaded guilty to a federal child pornography offense, announced the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton.

Terry L. Adcock, 65, Greenville, Illinois, faces a term in federal prison of not more than ten (10) years, a fine up to $250,000, and a term of supervised release of five (5) years to life when he is sentenced.

Sentencing is scheduled for May 16, 2014, in East St. Louis, Illinois. Adcock also agreed to forfeit the computers which contained the visual depictions. In addition, upon his release from prison, Adcock must register as a sex offender as a condition of his supervised release. Adcock is being held without bond pending sentencing.

The guilty plea was announced after an FBI nationwide investigation revealed IP addresses that accessed a web forum known to contain links to images and/or videos of visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.

The web forum listed a detailed description of the image and/or video file that a user could link to. This investigation revealed that, between October and November, 2011, an IP address assigned to Adcock tried to access the web forum on five (5) separate occasions.

On December 18, 2012, FBI Special Federal Officers spoke with Adcock at his residence about the results of the investigation. Adcock admitted that he had been searching for and viewing images of child pornography on the internet since he bought his first computer approximately twenty years prior, and that he was interested in prepubescent girls between the ages of 10 and 12.

He said that, by googling a search term commonly associated with child pornography, he would gain access to thousands of websites that contained child pornography. Adcock gave consent to the officers to search and seize, among other things, a Gateway desktop computer and a Dell Inspiron laptop computer which he used to access and view child pornography.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.

For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.usdoj.gov/psc. For more information about internet safety education, please visit www.usdoj.gov/psc and click on the tab ‘resources.’

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