United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that David Lombard, 51, of Lincoln, Nebraska, was sentenced today by Chief United States District Judge John M. Gerrard to 87 months in prison for possession of child pornography. After his release from prison, Lombard will serve 10 years of supervised release and be required to register as a sex offender.
In 2015, Homeland Security Investigations, Cyber Crimes Center, Child Exploitation Investigations Unit, found that a person using the username “sirthumper" distributed images of young females on a website catering to individuals interested in child pornography. Investigators identified David Lombard as “sirthumper".
During an interview in March of 2015, Lombard provided the investigators with several of his electronic devices. A forensic analyst located 104 images of child pornography and seven morphed image files that included adult pornography with an adult male penis in the image with the face of a minor child added to the pornographic image. Agents identified some of the minors as children of Lombard’s coworkers. Lombard obtained innocent images from his coworkers’ social media postings, and those images were morphed with pornography.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and CEOS, 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.justice.gov/psc.
This case was investigated by Homeland Security Investigations.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
