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Ponderay man sentenced for child porn |
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July 3, 2017 |
Aragon Miller, 43, of Ponderay, was sentenced in
United States District Court last week to 57
months in prison, followed by 10 years of
supervised release and a $5,100 special
assessment, for possession of child pornography.
Miller pled guilty to the charges on March 1.
According to the plea agreement and statements
made in court, as far back as 2014, law
enforcement officers observed that a computer in
the Sandpoint area was making images of children
engaged in sexually explicit conduct available
on the internet.
Based on this evidence, members of the Idaho
Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force were
able to determine that the computer was located
in the defendant’s Ponderay residence and
obtained a state search warrant.
Miller was present during the search. He
admitted that he used the internet and child
pornography search terms to download images he
knew were illegal.
When agents examined a computer seized from
Miller’s residence they recovered 169 images and
21 videos of minors engaged in sexually explicit
conduct. Miller also used software to delete
these images after he viewed them.
Senior United States District Court Judge Edward
J. Lodge also ordered Miller to forfeit a hard
drive he used during the commission of the crime
and to pay $5,000 in restitution to a child
depicted in several images that Miller
possessed.
Miller will be required to register as a sex
offender because of his conviction.
This case was investigated by the Idaho Internet
Crimes Against Children Task Force, a coalition
of federal, state, and local law enforcement
agencies who investigate and prosecute
individuals who use the internet to criminally
exploit children.
The case was brought as a 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.
Led by the United States Attorneys’ Offices and
the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and
Obscenity Section, 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.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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