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Danville Man Gets 40 Years for Child Porn
URBANA, Ill. (AP) -- A federal judge in Urbana has issued a 40 year prison sentence to a Danville man who pleaded guilty to child pornography charges.

The Champaign News-Gazette reports that U.S. District Court Judge Michael McCuskey handed down the sentence Thursday to 44 year old Richard Pruitt.

In June, Pruitt pleaded guilty to producing, advertising, receiving and possessing child pornography. In his plea, he admitted that as far back as 2004, he bought and traded pornography over the Internet and U.S. mail.

Pruitt was serving a sentence of probation from Vermilion County for a 2008 conviction for indecent solicitation of a minor at the time of his arrest on the pornography charges in August 2009.

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