Justin Nicholas Guerra, 23, of Myrtle Beach, was sentenced Tuesday in federal court in Florence, for possession of child pornography, according to US Attorney Bill Nettles.

United States District Judge Terry L. Wooten of Florence sentenced Guerra to 120 months imprisonment, 5 years supervised release and Guerra has been ordered to register as a sex offender.

Evidence presented at the change of plea hearing showed that in January 2011, the FBI in Connecticut signed into a GigaTribe file sharing program using a username obtained as a result of an identification takeover.

Guerra was logged into the network and the FBI downloaded Guerra's files containing child pornography.

A search was conducted of Guerra's home in Myrtle Beach in March 2011.

The forensic review of the computers taken during the search revealed 316 thumbnail photos and 21 movies of child pornography, according to a release from Nettles' office.

Investigation revealed that Guerra was using GigaTribe, Nettles said, which is a Peer-to-Peer software, to download images of child pornography and was sharing child pornography on the internet.

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.