From staff reports
An Oil City man has been sentenced in federal court to 200 months in jail, lifetime supervised release, and ordered to pay $15,000 in restitution ($3,000 to five separate identified victims) on his conviction of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of children, U.S. Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced Monday.
U.S. District Judge Stephanie L. Haines imposed the sentence on Brent Lockwood, 64, of 603 Bissell Ave.
According to information presented to the court, Lockwood received thousands of computer images and videos depicting minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct. Lockwood also did not dispute that there was sufficient evidence to convict him of traveling to the Philippines on numerous occasions for the purpose of engaging in sexual activity with minors.
The evidence also revealed Lockwood had engaged in sexual activity with minors during his numerous trips to the Philippines.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Christian A. Trabold prosecuted the case on behalf of the government.
The case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat child sexual exploitation and abuse, according to a Justice Department news release.
Led by the U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims.
