Jacksonville man sentenced for child porn

Christopher Shawn Warnock will spend more than seven years in prison

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A Jacksonville man was sentenced to seven years and six months in prison for receiving child pornography over the internet.

Christopher Shawn Warnock, 43, was also ordered to serve a 15-year term of supervision and register as a sex offender upon his release from prison.

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He's been in custody since his arrest in December 2014.

According to court documents, an FBI agent in New Jersey began an undercover online investigation in October 2014 to identify people who were using the internet to share images and videos depicting child pornography.

The agent made contact with Warnock and was able to download 24 videos of child pornography from his computer. Further investigation traced the computer to Warnock's home in Jacksonville.

Law enforcement officers executed a search warrant at his home in December 2014 and seized his computer.

Warnock told the agents that he searches online for child pornography using certain key terms, and that he enjoys watching others having sex with children.

Forensic analyses of Warnock's computer revealed that it contained at least 13 videos depicting the sexual abuse of young children.

Logs of online conversations, in which Warnock had indicated his desire to exchange videos of child pornography with other Internet users, were also recovered.