Repeat Child Sex Offender from Philadelphia Gets 35 Years in Federal Prison
A repeat child sex offender from Philadelphia will be spending the next several decades behind bars.
35-year Federal Sentence Handed Down
Federal authorities say on Thursday, 43-year-old Robert Redding was sentenced to 35 years in prison, a decade of supervised release, and he was ordered to pay $25,000 in restitution to his victims.
Redding was charged a year ago with one count of distribution and attempted distribution of child pornography, one count of receipt of child pornography, and one count of possession of child pornography. In August, he pleaded guilty to all charges.
Prior Conviction and Supervision Violations
We caution you that some of the details in this case is disturbing.
He had previously served more than a decade in prison for hands-on sexual offenses committed against a 13-year-old girl, and after his release, was required to register as a sex offender under Megan's Law. While still under state supervision, Redding resumed his criminal activities, this time by participating in an online child porn community, trading videos depicting children, including some as young as babies and toddlers, being raped by adult men, and uploading images of child sexual abuse to online accounts.
Officials said some of those new crimes happened while he was residing at Kintock Residential Reentry Center as a condition of his state parole and used at least one electronic device unknown to and unauthorized by his parole officer, to commit some of the offenses.
Project Safe Childhood
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.
The case was investigated by the FBI and prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Kelly Harrell and Eileen Castilla Geiger.
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