Monticello, Indiana man gets 25 years for child porn
Timothy Pressey, 40, pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court in Hammond in April to production of child pornography.
After prison, he will also serve 20 years on supervised release. A later hearing will finalize how much money he would owe the victim.
In court filings, Assistant U.S. Attorney Zachary Heater said Pressey narrated his sexual abuse of the victim. His actions guaranteed 'her abuse would be memorialized in the darkest corners of the internet for years to come.'
Defense lawyer Peter L. Boyles wrote his client took responsibility and cooperated with police.
Documents show the group was an exchange place for hundreds of users, including 'hurtcore' child porn that showed 'pain, torture and humiliation.'
Pressey appeared to detail how he abused the child.
'So welcome the world of a 6 yo,' Pressey said in one post.
When the FBI got a search warrant and raided his home on Nov. 2, they found 7,500 pictures and video files on his seized iPhone. Most were latent thumbnails 'likely due to Defendant's presence
in one or more group chats where (child porn) was freely exchanged,' according to court filings.
'Timothy Pressey committed a heinous crime against a child entrusted to his care and supervision and then shared the product of that crime on the internet,' Acting U.S. Attorney M. Scott Proctor said in a release.
'Thanks to the outstanding work of the FBI, our state and local partners, and this Office's dedicated team of prosecutors and staff, Pressey was swiftly brought to justice. The U.S. Attorney's Office will continue to do everything within our power to prosecute those who victimize children.'
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