Pitman Man Sentenced to 78 Months for Possession of Child Pornography
| U.S. Attorney’s Office January 09, 2009 |
CAMDEN—A Pitman man was sentenced to 78 months in federal prison today for possession of child pornography.
U.S. District Judge Noel L. Hillman, also ordered Barnaby Hewsen, 34, to pay a $2,000 fine and to serve 5 years of supervised release upon the completion of his prison term.
On Oct 15, 2007, Hewsen pleaded guilty before Judge Hillman to a one-count Information charging him with possessing a computer, compact discs and other materials which contained images of child pornography.
At his plea hearing, Hewsen admitted that on July 17, 2008, he was at home when Special Agents with the FBI’s South Jersey Resident Agency executed a search warrant at his residence in Pitman. Hewsen admitted that a computer hard drive seized by the agents contained over 600 images of child pornagraphy, which he had downloaded over the Internet. According to a criminal Complaint, many of the images depicted prepubescent female children engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Allen Harberg of the U.S. Attorney’s Office Criminal Division in Camden.
Defense Attorney: Thomas Young, Esq. Assistant Federal Public Defender