SHREVEPORT, La. – United States Attorney David C. Joseph
announced that Paul Andrew Talley, 51, of Coushatta, Louisiana, was sentenced
Wednesday by Chief U.S. District Judge S. Maurice Hicks Jr. to 10 years in
federal prison followed by five years of supervised release for accessing the
internet with intent to view child pornography.
Talley is also required to register as a sex offender.
According to documents presented at Talley’s guilty plea
hearing on April 11, 2019, law enforcement agents identified Talley’s computer
as accessing a “Dark Web” child porn site and being a regular user. Forensic analysis on the computer equipment
seized from Talley’s home on August 20, 2015, revealed more than 2,300 images
of child pornography. The images found
on the computer matched the images from the “Dark Web” site.
The Dark Web, also called the DarkNet, is a collection of
underground marketplaces where websites selling illegal content design their
sites to hide identities of users and evade law enforcement detection. For more
information, visit www.fbi.gov/news/stories/a-primer-on-darknet-marketplaces.
This case is part of Project Safe Childhood, a U.S.
Department of Justice nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of
child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led
by U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and
Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood combines 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.
Those concerned may leave tips with the FBI at tips.fbi.gov.
Tips may be submitted anonymously. The Shreveport FBI office number is (318)
861-1890.
The FBI conducted the investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney Seth D. Reeg
prosecuted the case.
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