Cahokia Man Receives 114-Month Prison Sentence for Possession of Child Pornography
| U.S. Attorney’s Office December 04, 2009 |
A. Courtney Cox, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on December 4, 2009, GREGORY P FEENEY, age 53, of Cahokia, Illinois, was sentenced in East St. Louis, Illinois after previously pleading guilty to a single count indictment charging him with Possession of Child Pornography. FEENEY was sentenced to a term of 114 months of imprisonment, a $750 fine, and 15 years of supervised release.
The violation took place in October of 2007, in St. Clair County, Illinois.
This case was prosecuted as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to better locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.
The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Metro-East Cyber Crime and Analysis Task Force. The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Deirdre Durborow and Nicole Gorovsky.