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Five Area Men Sentenced on Federal Child Pornography Charges

U.S. Attorney’s Office May 11, 2010
  • Eastern District of Missouri

ST. LOUIS, MO—The United States Attorney’s Office announced today that five area men have been sentenced on various charges involving child pornography.

  • George Fox, 68, Clarkson Valley, MO, was sentenced to 24 months in prison and lifetime supervised release, after pleading guilty in February to one felony count of possession of child pornography. He appeared today for sentencing before United States District Judge Jean C. Hamilton.
  • Andrew John Spallek, 50, Florissant, MO, was sentenced to 36 months in prison and lifetime supervised release, after pleading guilty in February to one felony count of possession of child pornography. In addition to the prison sentence, Spallek also received a fine of $10,000. He appeared today for sentencing before United States District Judge Carol E. Jackson.
  • Charles Kerry, 50, St. Louis, 63136, was sentenced to 78 months in prison and lifetime supervised release, after pleading guilty in January to one felony count of receipt of child pornography. He appeared today for sentencing before United States District Judge Catherine D. Perry.
  • Michael Ellington, 32, Florissant, MO, was sentenced to 51 months in prison and lifetime supervised release, after pleading guilty in January to three felony counts of possession of child pornography. He appeared before United States District Judge Henry Autrey.
  • Gordon Kearns, 82, St. Louis, 63111, was sentenced to one year and one day in prison and a lifetime term of supervised release, after pleading guilty in February to one felony count of possession of child pornography. He appeared before United States District Judge Rodney W. Sippel.

"Looking at child porn is a crime. There are no if's or but's about it," said Roland J. Corvington Special Agent in Charge of the FBI St. Louis Division. "Each time the image of a child being raped is circulated on theInternet, that child is being victimized again."

These cases were 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.

These cases were investigated locally by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the St. Louis County Police Department, Regional Computer Crime Education and Enforcement Group (RCCEEG) and the Postal Inspection Service. Assistant United States Attorney Carrie Costantin handled the cases for the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

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