The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Jonathan Brownlee, 42, of Long Pond, was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment on November 5, 2020, by U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion for possessing child pornography.

According to United States Attorney David J. Freed, Brownlee previously pleaded guilty to using cellphones and laptop computers to access images and videos of child pornography.

Brownlee committed the offense between August 2017 and April 2018, in Monroe County.

Brownlee committed the offense after having previously been convicted of receiving and distributing child pornography in 2012.

Mannion also ordered Brownlee to serve 10 years on supervised release following his prison sentence, undergo sex offender treatment, and to comply with the Sex Offender

Registration and Notification Act.

The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Assistant United States

Attorney Francis P. Sempa prosecuted the case.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.