Terry Lee Nolley, Child Pornography, Maryland 2012

A Silver Spring man pleaded guilty to transporting child pornography and destruction of records in a federal investigation in Maryland.

Terry Lee Nolley, 47, was charged with transporting child pornography and destruction of records in a federal investigation.

The guilty plea was announced by Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division; U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein; Postal Inspector in Charge Daniel S. Cortez of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service - Washington Division; and Special Agent in Charge William Winter of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Office of Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI).

According to his plea agreement, from approximately December 2006 through August 2008, Nolley and others conspired to operate “Country Lounge,” a secure web-based bulletin board dedicated to trading images of child pornography.

Nolley faces a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison and a maximum of 20 years in prison, followed by up to a lifetime of supervised release for transportation of child pornography. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison for destruction of records in a federal investigation.

U.S. District Judge Alexander Williams Jr. scheduled sentencing for Jan. 25, 2012, at 10:30 a.m. Nolley must register as a sex offender in the place where he resides, where he is an employee and where he is a student, under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).

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

Terry Lee Nolley, a Silver Spring man, has pleaded guilty to transporting child pornography and destruction of records in a federal investigation in Maryland.

Nolley was charged with transporting child pornography and destruction of records in a federal investigation. He faces a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison and a maximum of 20 years in prison, followed by up to a lifetime of supervised release for transportation of child pornography.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/host-child-pornography-online-bulletin-board-pleads-guilty-transporting-child-pornography-and