OMAHA – United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Jeffrey R. Rongish, age 31, of Omaha, was sentenced in federal court in Omaha, Nebraska for receiving and distributing child pornography. The Honorable Lyle E. Strom, Senior United States District Court Judge sentenced Rongish to a 78 month term of imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal prison system. After his release from prison Rongish will begin a twelve year term of supervised release and be required to register as a sex offender.
On October 28, 2013, a Douglas County Sheriff’s deputy using an undercover computer detected a computer at Rongish’s northwest Omaha residence offering to share child pornography. A search warrant was executed by members of the FBI Omaha Cyber Crimes Task Force on January 24, 2014.
Rongish admitted downloading child pornography for over 15 years. He provided agents with his encryption password. Agents recovered 4,5000 images of child pornography. The images included children ranging from infants to teens engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
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