PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Grove City,
Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 17 years and 6 months in
prison, followed by 20 years of supervised release, on his conviction of
production of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United
States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
United States District Judge Arthur J. Schwab imposed the
sentence on Matthew Switzer, 33.
According to information presented to the court at the time
of Switzer’s guilty plea, Switzer coerced a four-year-old female to engage in
sexually explicit conduct on multiple occasions for the purpose of producing at
least 13 visual depictions of such conduct. The photographs were later
discovered by the victim’s mother and forensically retrieved from his Gmail
account by members of the Pennsylvania State Police and the Federal Bureau of
Investigation. Switzer faces numerous state charges in Mercer County, which
allege, among other things, that he also sexually assaulted another minor
female.
Assistant United States Attorney Carolyn J. Bloch prosecuted
this case on behalf of the government.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Pennsylvania
State Police conducted the investigation leading to the prosecution of Switzer.
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