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A Butler County man has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on child sex abuse charges, federal prosecutors said Thursday.
Thomas Romspert, 29, of the city of Butler is the sole defendant in the three-count indictment made public this week, U.S. Attorney Scott W. Brady said.
According to the indictment, Romspert produced material depicting the sexual exploitation of a victim who is under 18 during July, August and September of last year.
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Nashua Man Sentenced to 300 Months for Manufacturing Child Pornography CONCORD - Chad Francisco, 32, of Nashua, was sentenced to 300 months in federal prison for manufacturing child pornography, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
According to court documents and statements made in court, a child endangerment inquiry by the Nashua Police Department resulted in a criminal investigation by Homeland Security Investigations ( HSI ). During the investigation, HSI obtained a federal search warrant for Francisco s cellular phone, which revealed visual depictions of sexually explicit conduct involving two children under the age of 10 years old. Francisco was found to have created the visual depictions using his cellular phone, and he admitted to transmitting the photos to others through text messages.
Dubuque Woman to Spend 30 Years in Prison for Sexually Exploiting Children and Possessing Child Pornography
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A woman who created sexually explicit images of two children was sentenced on February 12, 2021, to 30 years in federal prison
Gina Christa Urbain, age 37, from Dubuque, Iowa, received the prison term after an August 18, 2020 guilty plea to sexually exploiting children and possessing child pornography.
At the guilty plea, Urbain admitted that she sexually exploited two minors, a 7 year-old female and 5 year-old male, by creating visual depictions of sexually explicit material involving both children. Urbain also admitted possessing visual depictions of child pornography.
Urbain was sentenced in Cedar Rapids by United States District Court Judge C.J. Williams. Urbain was sentenced to 360 months’ imprisonment. She must also serve a five-year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system.
Joseph Krasley, 52, spent all hours of the day and night talking online with sex offenders and trading images of children being sexually abused, federal authorities said.