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Georgia man gets 15 years in federal prison for child porn
Posted: 09.24.2010 at 11:22 PM
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Investigators found more than 200 child porn images

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RINGGOLD, GA -- A judge has sentenced a 42-year-old Ringgold, Georgia, man to 15 years in federal prison in a child porn case, reported the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Robert Wayne McDonald pleaded guilty to communicating via the Internet with a Cook County, IL., police investigator who was posing as a 14-year-old girl. McDonald said he initiated sex talk with the investigator, who he believed to be a teenage girl.

Investigators found more than 200 child porn images on McDonald's computer, on a thumb drive, and a video game device, reported the AJC.

Read more about McDonald's sentencing at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

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