A 64 year old man from Elizabethtown, Kentucky, convicted of Possession of Child Pornography in South Dakota has been sentenced by a federal court judge.
Michael Ray Wilkes must spend three years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release. Wilkes was also ordered to pay a $100 special assessment to the Federal Crime Victims Fund and a $5,000 special assessment to the Victims of Trafficking Fund. Wilkes will be required to register as a sex offender under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act.
Wilkes was arrested and federally indicted following an online investigation on the BitTorrent networks looking for offenders sharing child pornography. Videos located were linked to Wilkes’ IP address. Forensic examination of Wilkes’ devices found images of child pornography, which he knowingly downloaded off the BitTorrent networks.
This case was investigated by the Internet Crimes Against Children Taskforce, the South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation, Homeland Security Investigations, the Rapid City Police Department, and the Pennington County Sheriff’s Office.
Wilkes was immediately remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service.
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