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Jacksonville Man Sentenced for Child Pornography
A 29-year-old Jacksonville man has been sentenced to six years and ten months in prison for receiving child pornography over the internet.
William Douglas Smith, III was sentenced by United States District Judge Marcia Morales Howard. He was also ordered to serve a 10-year term of supervised release and register as a sex offender.
Smith pleaded guilty on June 3, 2013, and has been in the custody of the United States Marshals Service since August 27, 2013.
According to court documents, an agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation began an investigation to identify individuals that had access to and/or were trading images and videos depicting child pornography over the internet.
The agent determined that a computer using a particular internet protocol (IP) address in the Jacksonville area was hosting images of child pornography using a file sharing program.
The agent made a connection to this computer through the internet and downloaded several video files directly from this computer. Each of the videos depicted young children engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
Further investigation revealed that the IP address resolved back to Smith’s Jacksonville residence.
On December 6, 2012, FBI agents and other law enforcement officers executed a federal search warrant at Smith’s residence and seized, among other things, five computers and 66 compact discs.
A subsequent forensic analysis of the computer used by Smith revealed that it contained more than 250 videos of child pornography.
During an interview with law enforcement, Smith admitted to accumulating and collecting child pornography and said that he enjoyed ‘the naughtiness of it.’
He stated that child pornography videos ‘get your heart going.’
This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Kelly S. Karase.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the government to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.
Led by the United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims.
For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.
Key Facts
- State: Florida
- Category: Sex Crimes|Cybercrime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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