The Norman Transcript
Sat, May 17 2008
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Transcript Staff
A Norman man was sentenced Wednesday to serve 210 months in federal prison for child exploitation by producing child pornography.
Tony Martin Allen was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma by Chief United States District Judge Robin J. Cauthron.
Allen pleaded guilty last November to persuading a 7-year-old girl to pose nude, taking photographs and storing the images on his laptop computer, according to John C. Richter, U.S. attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
Allen had the images "mailed, shipped and transported in interstate and foreign commerce," according to the federal grand jury indictment.
The case was brought about as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative designed to protect children from online exploitation and abuse. Led by the U.S. Attorneys Offices, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children, as well as to identify and rescue victims, Richter said.
The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Norman Police Department. The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Tim Ogilvie.?
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