James T. Jacks
Acting United States Attorney
Northern District of Texas

TAYLOR COUNTY MAN SENTENCED TO 17 ½ YEARS
IN FEDERAL PRISON, WITHOUT PAROLE,
FOLLOWING CHILD PORNOGRAPHY CONVICTION

LUBBOCK, Texas — Jason Alan Seyffert, of Merkel, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 210 months in prison, announced acting U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of the Northern District of Texas. Seyffert, 31, pled guilty on December 31, 2008, to one count of interstate receipt of child pornography. Judge Cummings also ordered that Seyffert register as a sex offender and serve a 35-year term of supervised release. He was immediately remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service.

According to documents filed in court, Seyffert admitted that he became interested in child pornography in 2006 and used the Internet to collect child pornography images from online contacts, web sites, and Limewire peer-to-peer software file sharing. He admitted that when searching for child pornography on Limewire, he searched for images and videos depicting sexually explicit conduct between underage boys and adult males. Seyffert transmitted less than 10 child pornography videos and less than 20 child pornography images over the Internet to his online contacts.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), 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, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov

The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven M. Sucsy of the Lubbock, Texas, U.S. Attorney's Office.

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