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THURSDAY, MAY 21, 2009
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AUBURN MAN SENTENCED TO 78 MONTHS FOR CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
BOSTON, MA - An Auburn man was sentenced on May 15, 2009 in federal court for receipt and possession of thousands of images of child pornography, some of which involved children under the age of twelve engaged in sexually explicit conduct with other minors or adults.
Acting United States Attorney Michael K. Loucks, Warren T. Bamford, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation - Boston Field Division and Chief Andrew J. Sluckis, Jr., of the Auburn Police Department announced today that JOHN HINTLIAN, age 60, of Auburn, Massachusetts was sentenced by U.S. District Judge F. Dennis Saylor, IV to 78 months imprisonment, to be followed by 5 years of supervised release. HINTLIAN pled guilty to four counts of receipt of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography on January 15, 2009.
At the earlier plea hearing, the prosecutor told the Court that had the case proceeded to trial the Government’s evidence would have proven that in the Spring of 2006, a federal agent interviewed HINTLIAN regarding his receipt and possession of child pornography. HINTLIAN turned over at least eight disks filled with images depicting child pornography, and a search of his personal computer yielded additional images. HINTLIAN obtained these images primarily from web based newsgroups and admitted that he had been downloading such images for a couple of years.
The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Auburn Police Department. It was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Karin M. Bell of Loucks’s Worcester Branch Office.
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