Stockton man sentenced in child pornography case

A Stockton man was sentenced in federal court yesterday for possession of child pornography.

Danny D. Williams, 49, was sentenced to three years and 10 months in a federal prison, without parole, by U.S. Chief District Judge Dean Whipple.

According to Todd P. Graves, United States attorney for the Western District of Missouri, Williams pleaded guilty on Feb. 24, to charges in an October 2004 indictment, admitting that he downloaded images of child pornography from KAZAA file sharing and from other Internet searches and stored those images on his computer in February 2003.

Graves said that Williams possessed at least 215 images of apparent child pornography, including movie files, some of which contained sadistic, masochistic and violent content.

The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Rose A. Barber. It was invesitgated by the Cedar County Sheriff's Department, the Regional Computer Crimes Education and Enforcement Group, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.