WALTON COUNTY, Ga. — A Walton County man was sentenced Tuesday after a federal jury convicted him on child pornography charges.
Johnathan Remsen was convicted in February. He was arrested in a Georgia Bureau of Investigation-led undercover investigation into an online peer-to-peer sharing network that was transferring child porn, prosecutors said.
GBI agents have been investigating the network since July 2017. An undercover agent received 29 videos containing child pornographic material from an IP address that traced back to a Loganville home. Investigators learned that Remsen lived there.
Investigators searched the home in January 2018 where they recovered a computer tower belonging to Remsen. It had 2,357 picture files and 196 video files of suspected child pornography, investigators said.
At first, the 38-year-old said he accidentally downloaded the material. He later confessed that it wasn't an accident - that he does look at inappropriate content but never meant to download or keep it. According to investigators, the explicit photos and videos contained child sexual abuse material of children 12 years old and younger.
Remsen was sentenced to serve 180 months in prison or 15 years, followed by 25 years of supervised release. He will have to register as a sex offender for life upon release; he is not eligible for parole.
