Child pornography sentence

Posted 8/21/12

MONTICELLO, NY — Michael Eason, 34, of Monticello, was sentenced on October 7 in Sullivan County Court to a total of five to 10 years in state prison by County Judge Michael McGuire for the use of …

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Child pornography sentence

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MONTICELLO, NY — Michael Eason, 34, of Monticello, was sentenced on October 7 in Sullivan County Court to a total of five to 10 years in state prison by County Judge Michael McGuire for the use of a child in a sexual performance and related felonies.

Eason entered guilty pleas to all of these felony offenses on July 8. District Attorney Jim Farrell said that Eason, who was a level 3 registered sex offender for a prior rape conviction in 2004, was arrested on January 15 after Liberty Police began an investigation into Eason at the request of the Sullivan County Probation Department.

Liberty detectives learned that Eason had engaged in a chat with a 14-year-old boy, using an app on his cellular phone, and had the boy send him a picture of his genitals. Eason posed as a teenage girl in this chat. Detectives then searched Eason’s cellular phone and, after an analysis by the New York State Police Computer Crimes Unit, found images of child pornography and the existence of Internet accounts that he had been using, which he had not reported to the sex offender registry as required by law.

Farrell said, “Parents should be very mindful of the applications on their kids phones and should be checking to make sure that their children are not being exploited. Thankfully, this defendant did not engage in any sexual acts with this child, and his acts were discovered shortly after they occurred, and he is now being held accountable for these crimes with a state prison sentence.”

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