BANGOR, Maine: A former Augusta resident was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Bangor for possessing child pornography, Acting U.S. Attorney Donald E. Clark announced.
U.S. District Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. sentenced Michael C. O’Brien, 40, now of New Lenox, Illinois, to 87 months in prison followed by 10 years of supervised release. O’Brien was also ordered to pay $19,000 in restitution. He pleaded guilty on November 18, 2019.
According to court records, O’Brien possessed thousands of images and hundreds of videos of child pornography that he had received over the internet. Many of these images and videos depicted prepubescent girls under 12 years old. Law enforcement officers discovered the child pornography when they executed a search warrant at O’Brien’s home on September 26, 2018.
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