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Plummer man gets prison for child porn |
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December 1, 2017 |
Scott Allen Reed, 67, Plummer, was sentenced
Thursday in federal court to 70 months in prison
followed by ten years of supervised release for
possession of child pornography, U.S. Attorney
Bart M. Davis announced. Reed pleaded guilty to
that charge on June 28, 2017.
According to the plea agreement, personnel
working for the Nez Perce tribe found two bins
of computer drives and computer storage media
abandoned outside a building. While reviewing
the items to identify the owner, the personnel
saw child pornography. The items were turned
over to the FBI.
A forensic examiner reviewed the items. The
examiner found 260 images and six videos of
minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct as
well as hundreds of child erotica images. The
examiner also determined that Reed was the owner
of the items. The FBI later interviewed Reed,
who admitted downloading images of “young
girls.”
The child pornography images were sent to
National Center for Mission and Exploited
Children (NCMEC). NCMEC determined that the
images included identified minors from
California, Belgium and Ukraine.
Senior U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge
ordered Reed to forfeit the computers, hard
drives and CDs found in the bins. He also
ordered Reed to register as a sex offender
following his prison sentence. Judge Lodge
ordered Reed to pay $5,000 to a human
trafficking fund.
This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau
of Investigation, a member of the Idaho Internet
Crimes Against Children Task Force. This task
force is 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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