LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - A Butler County man has been sentenced for recording himself sexually abusing a child, sharing some of those images and possessing thousands of other images of child pornography.
The Omaha World-Herald reported that Michael McCullar, of Dwight, was sentenced Wednesday to 41 years and 10 months in prison for producing and possessing child pornography. A U.S. district judge in Lincoln also ordered him to pay more than $154,000 in restitution and more than $30,000 in fines and fees.
Homeland Security agents in Nebraska were tipped off to McCullar by agents in Boston who were monitoring chatrooms and darknet websites that trade in child pornography. The darknet is a part of the internet hosted within an encrypted network and accessible only through specialized anonymity-providing tools.
Investigators eventually found more than 30,000 images and 1,500 videos of child pornography on his electronic devices.
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