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Former Waco Internet company owner sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for child porn
A 49-year-old Waco man who is serving a 40-year state prison term for indecency with a child has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for conspiracy to produce child pornography.
Phillip Warren Roberts, former owner of an Internet service provider in Waco called Century Alpha, pleaded guilty in August to federal child pornography charges. He was sentenced to prison this week by U.S. District Judge Walter S. Smith Jr.
Roberts admitted that from June 2003 to October 2003, he conspired with a Pennsylvania woman to provide him with sexually explicit photos of a 2-year-old through this computer in exchange for $2,000, according to federal officials.
Waco police and federal agents executed a search warrant at Roberts’ house and business and discovered more than 47,000 images and about 675 videos depicting child pornography on his computer, officials have said.
In 2003, Roberts was sentenced in state court to 40 years in prison and fined $20,000 for violating his probation after Waco police arrested him for possessing child pornography. Roberts had been on deferred probation since pleading guilty in August 2000 to two counts of indecency with a child involving an 11-year-old.
He won’t begin serving his federal sentence until he completes his state prison term, officials said.
The woman in Pennsylvania was prosecuted there for providing the images, authorities have said.
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By Fred
November 7, 2008 4:49 AM | Link to this
The Business owners and school Teachers are perverts in Slaughterhouse Waco. And you thought the ancient city of Sodom was bad? Welcome to preverted Slaughterhouse Waco………where racist murderous Lynch-Nooses hang from trees at Baylor University.