U.S. Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced Wednesday that Paul Liming, 65, of Windham, was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court to three years of imprisonment and 10 years of supervised release for possession of child pornography. Liming pleaded guilty to the charge on Jan. 4, 2013.
According to court records, in January 2011, Liming brought a computer to the Best Buy store in South Portland and asked for assistance in recovering data from its hard drive. A Best Buy technician discovered several files that appeared to contain child pornography. A forensic examination conducted on the computer by the FBI pursuant to a search warrant revealed more than 600 image files and 200 video files containing child pornography.
“Although Liming had no criminal history and was retired from a career as an executive, the court imposed the three-year sentence because of the seriousness of the crime, which causes the children depicted to be repeatedly victimized,” Delahanty said.
The case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice 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 marshals 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, visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.
Send questions/comments to the editors.
