The United States Attorney’s Office for
the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Monroe County resident
pleaded guilty today before Senior U.S. District Court Judge Edwin M. Kosik to
receiving child pornography.
According to United States Attorney
Peter J. Smith, Jonathan Brownlee, age 34, of Long Pond, Pennsylvania, admitted
to using a computer to download images of child pornography between April and
December 2009.
Brownlee was indicted by a federal grand
jury on June 8, 2010. Brownlee’s arrest resulted from an investigation
conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the State Attorney
General’s Office, Pocono Mountain Regional Police, Delaware County Detectives,
and Scranton Police.
Under the terms of the plea agreement,
if accepted by the court, Brownlee will be sentenced to between 60 months and
96 months in prison, to be followed by 20 years of supervised release.
The case was brought as part of Project
Safe Childhood, a U.S. Department of Justice nationwide initiative to combat
child sexual exploitation and abuse. 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.
The case is being prosecuted by
Assistant U.S. Attorney Francis P. Sempa.
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