k1081 BC-KS-ChildPornSentence 07-09 0192
Published on -7/9/2009, 6:49 PM
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Kan. man sentenced on child pornography charge
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- An eastern Kansas man has been sentenced to nearly seven years in federal prison for distributing child pornography.
The U.S. Attorney's office says 41-year-old Norman Kidd of Emporia was sentenced Thursday. Kidd pleaded guilty in March to a single count.
Federal prosecutors say Kidd stored pornographic images of young girls on his computer and made them available to Internet users through a program called Limewire. Limewire is a peer-to-peer file sharing program that lets Internet users access files from other users' computer hard drives.
A federal agent found the files on Kidd's computer during an investigation that began in July 2007. Kidd will spend six years and eight months in prison.
