Richard Vatilla, 44, of Cleveland, was sentenced to ten years in federal prison by District Judge Curtis L. Collier on Sept. 25 for charges related to the distribution of child pornography, according to a press release from the office of U.S. Attorney William C. Killian.
Additionally, upon his release he’ll face ten years of “supervised release,” and will be required to register as a sex offender.
In a plea agreement, Vatilla admitted to downloading and trading child pornography, making child pornography available for download through file sharing, and going into online teen chat rooms, talking to people he believed to be minors, and asking them to send him photos of themselves, according to the release.
The release said the “indictment and subsequent conviction of Vatilla was the result of an investigation, by the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, Department of Homeland Security Investigations Division, and Bradley County Sheriff’s Office.”
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