Auburn Man Sentenced to 78 Months for Child Pornography

BOSTON, MA—An Auburn man was sentenced on May 15, 2009 in federal court for
receipt and possession of thousands of images of child pornography, some of which involved
children under the age of twelve engaged in sexually explicit conduct with other minors or
adults.

Acting United States Attorney Michael K. Loucks, Warren T. Bamford, Special Agent in
Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation—Boston Field Division and Chief Andrew J.
Sluckis, Jr., of the Auburn Police Department announced today that JOHN HINTLIAN, age 60, of Auburn, Massachusetts was sentenced by U.S. District Judge F. Dennis Saylor, IV to 78
months imprisonment, to be followed by 5 years of supervised release. HINTLIAN pled guilty
to four counts of receipt of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography
on January 15, 2009.

At the earlier plea hearing, the prosecutor told the Court that had the case proceeded to
trial the Government’s evidence would have proven that in the Spring of 2006, a federal agent
interviewed HINTLIAN regarding his receipt and possession of child pornography.
HINTLIAN turned over at least eight disks filled with images depicting child pornography, and
a search of his personal computer yielded additional images. HINTLIAN obtained these images
primarily from web based newsgroups and admitted that he had been downloading such images
for a couple of years.

The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Auburn Police
Department. It was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Karin M. Bell of Loucks’s Worcester Branch Office.