FLORENCE -- A Florence County man has been sentenced to eight years imprisonment after being found guilty of being in possession of child pornography.
In addition to that judgement, Dennis Anthony Lypen, 21, will also receive three years supervised release, and ordered to receive sex offender treatment.
The FBI identified an individual using a computer in Florence, South Carolina, that possessed, transmitted, and distributed child pornography.
Further investigation revealed the individual's address to be Lypen's address. A search warrant was executed at the Lypen residence on June 26, 2009.
Computers and media were seized and placed into evidence. During the forensic review, thousands of images of child pornography, including photographs and video files, were located on the imaged hard drive of the laptop computer that had been seized from the bedroom of Dennis Lypen.
Lypen admitted that he had used Limewire, an online file sharing program, to download images of child pornography and they were still on his computer in the Limewire folder.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative designed to protect children from online exploitation and abuse.
Lypen was sentenced in federal court in Florence.
