Michael C. Dissler Press Release (Sentencing)

For Immediate Release
November 24, 2008

BUTLER COUNTY MAN SENTENCED TO NEARLY 15 YEARS FEDERAL PRISON FOR ATTEMPTING TO TRANSPORT CHILD PORNOGRAPHY

United States Attorney Catherine L. Hanaway announced that a Butler County man was sentenced to prison on felony child pornography charges.

MICHAEL C. DISSLER, Fisk, Missouri, was sentenced to 173 months imprisonment on one felony count of Attempting to Transport Child Pornography. Upon release from prison, Dissler will be placed on supervised release for the remainder of his life. He appeared before U.S. District Judge Catherine D. Perry today in St. Louis.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood. In February 2006, the Department of Justice launched the program, which is a nationwide initiative designed to protect children from online exploitation and abuse. Led by the United States Attorneys’ Offices, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov/.

As a part of his earlier guilty plea, Dissler admitted that on October 2, 2007, he attempted to transporting an image of child pornography by sending the image as an attachment in an e-mail. Dissler was using his personal computer when he attempted to transport the image. Forensic analysis of Dissler’s computer revealed that he possessed more than 600 image files of child pornography, that is images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. During an interview on January 30, 2008, Dissler admitted that he had attempted to transport a video file containing child pornography and that he had collected all of his images of child pornography on the internet.

Hanaway commended the Southeast Cyber-Crimes Task Force, the Poplar Bluff Police Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children for their combined efforts to prosecute this case. Assistant United States Attorney Abbie Crites-Leoni handled the prosecution for the Government.

UNITED STATES ATTORNEY'S OFFICE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI SOUTHWESTERN DIVISION - CAPE GIRARDEAU CATHERINE L. HANAWAY United States Attorney	NEWS RELEASE
For further information: Contact AUSA Abbie Crites-Leoni at (573) 334-3736
For Immediate Release November 24, 2008 BUTLER COUNTY MAN SENTENCED TO NEARLY 15 YEARS FEDERAL PRISON FOR ATTEMPTING TO TRANSPORT CHILD PORNOGRAPHY United States Attorney Catherine L. Hanaway announced that a Butler County man was sentenced to prison on felony child pornography charges. MICHAEL C. DISSLER, Fisk, Missouri, was sentenced to 173 months imprisonment on one felony count of Attempting to Transport Child Pornography. Upon release from prison, Dissler will be placed on supervised release for the remainder of his life. He appeared before U.S. District Judge Catherine D. Perry today in St. Louis. This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood. In February 2006, the Department of Justice launched the program, which is a nationwide initiative designed to protect children from online exploitation and abuse. Led by the United States Attorneys’ Offices, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov/. As a part of his earlier guilty plea, Dissler admitted that on October 2, 2007, he attempted to transporting an image of child pornography by sending the image as an attachment in an e-mail. Dissler was using his personal computer when he attempted to transport the image. Forensic analysis of Dissler’s computer revealed that he possessed more than 600 image files of child pornography, that is images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. During an interview on January 30, 2008, Dissler admitted that he had attempted to transport a video file containing child pornography and that he had collected all of his images of child pornography on the internet. Hanaway commended the Southeast Cyber-Crimes Task Force, the Poplar Bluff Police Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children for their combined efforts to prosecute this case. Assistant United States Attorney Abbie Crites-Leoni handled the prosecution for the Government.