The United States Attorney’s Office for
the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Schuylkill County resident
pleaded guilty today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas M. Blewitt to
receiving and distributing child pornography.
According to United States Attorney
Peter J. Smith, Dean Livingstone, age 42, of New Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
admitted to using a computer to download and share images of child pornography
between May 2008 and June 2009.
Livingstone was indicted by a federal
grand jury on March 16, 2010. Livingstone’s arrest resulted from an
investigation conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Under the terms of the plea agreement,
if accepted by the court, Livingstone will be sentenced to between 132 months
and 168 months in prison, to be followed by a life term of supervised release.
Sentencing before Senior U.S. District Court Judge Richard P. Conaboy is
scheduled for August 28, 2012.
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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