BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — A former Bellingham youth soccer referee faces three years in federal prison for posing as a teenage girl online to get access to child pornography.
The Bellingham Herald reports (http://bit.ly/1GM2AeB ) that 28-year-old Timon Anderson Berry pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography in March. On July 10, he was sentenced to three years in prison and seven years of supervised release.
Charging papers filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle say Berry portrayed himself as a 15-year-old girl interested in pictures of girls between 12 and 16 years old.
Police raided Berry’s home near Bellingham in January 2014 after connecting him with an email account that had more than 1,300 messages referencing or containing pornographic images or videos.