March 4, 2010 - EUGENE, OR—United States District Judge Michael R. Hogan today sentenced Dale Wayne Manning, 46, of Eugene, Oregon to 132 months in prison for possessing and transporting child pornography.
In September 2007 a man contacted the FBI after Manning responded to a classified advertisement on www.craigslist.com seeking single fathers. Manning, who does not have any children, falsely identified himself as a divorced 44-year-old man with an 8-year-old son. An e-mail conversation ensued, culminating in Manning sending the man three pornographic images of a 5-year-old boy, and asking him to produce and send back pornographic images showing the man engaging in sexually explicit conduct with his 15-year-old son. The FBI obtained and executed a search warrant at Manning’s residence that revealed 138 image files and one video file of children engaged in sexually explicit conduct, including images of prepubescent minors subjected to sadistic and masochistic conduct. A federal grand jury indicted Manning on June 19, 2008, and he pled guilty on October 20, 2009.
Upon release from prison, Manning will serve a 20-year term of supervised release, and was ordered to register as a sex offender.
The Eugene Resident Office of the FBI successfully investigated the case and the case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney AnneMarie Sgarlata.
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. Led by 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 better locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.
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