A Newburgh man has been sentenced to five years in federal prison after pleading guilty to possession of child sexual abuse materials. WNIN’s John Gibson has the story:
U.S. District Court Judge Richard Young handed down the sentence to 46-year-old Phillip Abell.
FBI agents executed a search warrant at Abell’s Newburgh home in 2020 and seized data storage discs and a custom-built desktop computer.
Agents said Abell admitted that he had used a file sharing program for three years to search for materials featuring child sexual abuse.
They said he also admitted to first viewing such material while in college.
U.S. Attorney Zachary Myers said Abell “trawled through the darkest corners of the internet to find images of the sexual abuse of young children.”
Myers said trafficking in the images “furthers the trauma inflicted on innocent children.”