Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Derrick Coffin, 36, of Lincoln, Maine, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock Jr. to 20 years in prison and supervised release for life for possessing child pornography and accessing child pornography with the intent to view it. He was also ordered to pay $13,000 in restitution. Coffin pleaded guilty on March 12, 2018.
According to court records, on March 18, 2016, Coffin possessed hundreds of child pornography images on his laptop computer that were discovered during a probation check at his home. Coffin was subject to an enhanced sentence due to a prior conviction for gross sexual assault.
The investigation was conducted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations, the Lincoln and Bangor Police Departments, the State of Maine Probation & Parole Office, and the Maine State Police and brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
