A 36-year-old Wilmington man was sentenced Tuesday to nine years in prison for trading child pornography online.
James C. Peterson pleaded guilty in January to transportation of child pornography, which carries a maximum sentence of up to 20 years in prison.
According to court records, Peterson came to the attention of the state police and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement last year.
When police searched his home on June 4, 2008, they seized three computers and digital media containing more that 16,000 still images and 140 videos of child pornography.
A search of Peterson’s AOL accounts revealed that he had traded child pornography through e-mail with about 40 other people, said Acting U.S. Attorney David Weiss.
Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement independently identified Peterson as a child pornography trader after finding e-mails containing child pornography on the computer of an individual in Indiana.
Weiss said that two years before he was arrested, Peterson had been engaging in online conversation with a 14-year-old New York boy who was in reality a police detective from Nassau County, N.Y.
During his conversations with the alleged teen, Peterson sent several computer files containing child pornography to the undercover detective.
He also talked about meeting the alleged teen in New York and Wilmington for sex.
Peterson told law enforcement officers following his arrest that he downloaded the pornographic images to a folder marked “VYB” for “very young boys.”
The youngest child depicted was about 2 years old, he said.
Peterson, who claimed he had been abused as a child, was told by Federal Judge Sue L. Robinson at sentencing that “you became your childhood’s nightmare.”
James C. Peterson pleaded guilty in January to transportation of child pornography, which carries a maximum sentence of up to 20 years in prison.
According to court records, Peterson came to the attention of the state police and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement last year.
When police searched his home on June 4, 2008, they seized three computers and digital media containing more that 16,000 still images and 140 videos of child pornography.
A search of Peterson’s AOL accounts revealed that he had traded child pornography through e-mail with about 40 other people, said Acting U.S. Attorney David Weiss.
Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement independently identified Peterson as a child pornography trader after finding e-mails containing child pornography on the computer of an individual in Indiana.
Weiss said that two years before he was arrested, Peterson had been engaging in online conversation with a 14-year-old New York boy who was in reality a police detective from Nassau County, N.Y.
During his conversations with the alleged teen, Peterson sent several computer files containing child pornography to the undercover detective.
He also talked about meeting the alleged teen in New York and Wilmington for sex.
Peterson told law enforcement officers following his arrest that he downloaded the pornographic images to a folder marked “VYB” for “very young boys.”
The youngest child depicted was about 2 years old, he said.
Peterson, who claimed he had been abused as a child, was told by Federal Judge Sue L. Robinson at sentencing that “you became your childhood’s nightmare.”
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