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As part of Scott Barton's guilty plea, he admitted to possessing hundreds of images and videos of child pornography, one of which he sent to an uncover police officer.
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Tupper Lake man gets 10 years for child porn
Scott Barton will also now have to register as a sex offender
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Staff Report

SYRACUSE | A Tupper Lake man has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison and must now register as a sex offender for trading and distributing child pornography.

Federal prosecutors said Scott Barton, 30, was sentenced Feb. 2 to 120 months in prison followed by 10 years of supervised release during his appearance before United States District Judge David Hurd.

As part of his guilty plea, Barton admitted that in July 2020, he used a messaging app on his phone to participate in a group chat in which child pornography was being traded.

As part of the group chat, Barton distributed a video of child pornography to an undercover law enforcement officer who was posing as a member of the group.

Barton also admitted that in November and December, he also possessed hundreds of images of videos and images of child pornography with a cloud storage account he maintained.

The case was announced by United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman and Janeen DiGuiseppi, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

The case was investigated by the FBI Syracuse Mid-State Child Exploitation Task Force, consisting of FBI Special Agents and investigators of the New York State Police, Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) and Computer Crimes Unit (CCU).

The case was prosecuted by Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Adrian LaRochelle as a part of Project Safe Childhood.

For more information about Project Safe Childhood, visit www.justice.gov/psc.

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