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Moberly, Missouri Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Child Pornography Charges

U.S. Attorney’s Office October 29, 2009
  • Eastern District of Missouri

St. Louis, MO: Bradley D. Elliott pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography, Acting United States Attorney Michael W. Reap and Randolph County Prosecuting Attorney Mike Fusselman announced today.

Elliott, 40, Moberly, MO was pleaded guilty to two felony counts of possession of child pornography. Elliott was in possession of more than 600 images of child pornography, images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, which he downloaded from the Internet. Some of these images portray minors under the age of 12. Elliott possessed these images in September 2007. He appeared before United States District Judge Jean C. Hamilton. Sentencing has been set for January 22, 2010.

Each count carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and/or fines up to $250,000.

“These aren’t just images on a computer that are being traded like baseball cards,” said Roland Corvington, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI in St. Louis. “The children in the pornographic images are someone’s daughter, son, sister or brother who will be traumatized the rest of their lives.”

This case was brought 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.

Reap commended the work on the case by the Kirksville Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Mid-Missouri Internet Crimes Task Force, the Randolph County Prosecuting Attorney, the Randolph County Sheriff’s Office, the Moberly Police Department; and Assistant United States Attorney Reginald Harris, who is handling the case for the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

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