Moscow Man Sentenced to 210 Months in Prison for Receipt of Child Pornography

COEUR D’ALENE – Devin Terrance Pickler, 40, of Moscow, Idaho, was sentenced to 210 months in federal prison for receipt of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today.

According to court records, in the summer of 2024, law enforcement received a CyberTip flagging a social media account for possessing suspected child sexual abuse material (“CSAM”). Law enforcement investigated the flagged account and determined that it belonged to Pickler, who was living in Moscow, Idaho.  In examining Pickler’s account, law enforcement found that he had uploaded hundreds of CSAM files to online groups and had posted messages online about his desire to commit sexual offenses against children.  In one message, Pickler wrote about going to a “street market” to look for young children but being unable to grope any due to “too many helicopter parents.”  A later search of one of Pickler’s personal online storage accounts showed that he had saved several photographs that appeared to have been covertly taken of children in public at a local street market.

In early 2025, law enforcement executed a federal search warrant at Pickler’s Moscow residence.  They seized numerous electronic devices containing CSAM. They also seized multiple ceramic figurines of children in erotic poses, as well as a child-sized sex doll.     

United States District Judge David C. Nye ordered that Pickler be placed on supervised release for the rest of his life following completion of his prison sentence.  Pickler will be required to register as a sex offender because of this conviction.  

U.S. Attorney Davis commended the work of the Moscow Police Department, the Latah regional SWAT team, the Lewiston Police Department, the Latah County Prosecutor’s Office, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which led to the charges.  Assistants U.S. Attorney Adam Johnson and Traci Whelan prosecuted this case.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. As part of Project Safe Childhood, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Idaho and the Idaho Attorney General’s Office partner to marshal federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims.  For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.justice.gov/psc.

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