An Alabama man was sentenced today to 90 years in prison and
10 years of supervised release for production of child pornography involving
seven minor victims, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A.
Blanco of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Jay E.
Town of the Northern District of Alabama.
Gregory Jerome Lee, 54, formerly of Cullman County, Alabama,
pleaded guilty in January 2017 to four counts of production of child
pornography. U.S. District Judge
Virginia Emerson Hopkins presided over the sentencing in Birmingham, Alabama.
According to court documents, beginning in September 1996
and continuing for over a decade, until August of 2007, Lee and his
co-conspirators belonged to a group of sophisticated offenders who gathered in
secret, password-protected, chat rooms to discuss their sexual interest in
minors and the real-life sexual abuse of children being perpetrated by several
group members. Lee and others also used
these chat rooms to advertise, distribute, receive, and possess child
pornography. Court documents state that
from September of 1996 through December of 2004, Lee sexually abused at least
seven different minors and that he frequently produced images and videos
depicting his sexual exploitation of these children which he shared with his
co-conspirators.
Trial Attorney Ralph Paradiso of the Child Exploitation and
Obscenity Section (CEOS) of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and
Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel Fortune of the Northern District of Alabama
prosecuted the case.
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