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Man Receives 20-Year Sentence for Distributing Child Pornography
Computer Used to Commit Crime Contained over 4,400 Images and 130 Videos Showing Child Pornography

U.S. Attorney’s Office August 24, 2010
  • Northern District of Georgia (404) 581-6000

NEWNAN, GA—ROGER CARRUTHERS, 47, of LaGrange, Georgia, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Camp to serve 20 years in federal prison on charges of receiving and distributing child pornography.

United States Attorney Sally Quillian Yates said, “This defendant earned the long sentence that the court imposed today. He received and distributed over 4,400 images and 130 videos of child pornography, some of it horrifically brutal.”

Carruthers was sentenced to 20 years in prison to be followed by 10 years of supervised release.

According to United States Attorney Yates, the charges, and other information presented in court: The defendant traded child pornography via the Internet with an FBI agent working in an undercover capacity. The videos and images traded and contained on the defendant’s computer included children as young as 18 months old, and also sadistic and masochistic conduct involving children.

This case was investigated by special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Assistant United States Attorneys Francey Hakes, Gerald Sachs, and Kim Dammers prosecuted the case.

This case is being brought as part of Project Safe Childhood. In February 2006, the Attorney General launched Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative designed to protect children from online exploitation and abuse. Led by the United States Attorney's Offices around the country, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.

For further information please contact Sally Q. Yates, United States Attorney, or Charysse L. Alexander, Executive Assistant United States Attorney, through Patrick Crosby, Public Affairs Officer, U.S. Attorney's Office, at (404) 581-6016. The Internet address for the HomePage for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Georgia is www.justice.gov/usao/gan.

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