SACRAMENTO, Calif. — On Friday, U.S. District Judge Garland
E. Burrell Jr. sentenced James Jay Hitt, 51, of Anderson, to 40 years in prison
for distribution and receipt of child pornography, U.S. Attorney McGregor W.
Scott announced.
According to evidence presented at trial, Hitt interacted
with a 12-person network of child pornographers, managed a blog where he posted
child pornography, and messaged people through a Russian website that served as
a platform for child pornographers to trade and discuss child pornography.
Based on a lead from the FBI in Ohio, investigators in California searched
Hitt’s house on January 4, 2013. When they entered his house to conduct the
search, he brandished a knife at them. They found over 4,000 images and dozens
of videos of child pornography on a desktop computer, an 80 gigabyte internal
hard drive, and several CDs. Hitt has been in custody since June 15, 2015. Hitt
had a prior conviction for a crime relating to sexual abuse that enhanced his
sentence.
This case was the product of an investigation by the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, the Anderson Police Department, and the California
Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Roger
Yang and Michael M. Beckwith prosecuted the case.
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