{"id":424241,"date":"2026-10-10T15:02:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T15:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/424241\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T15:02:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T15:02:14","slug":"jacksonville-man-sentenced-to-federal-prison-for-child-porn-possession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/424241\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville man sentenced to federal prison for child porn possession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Brannan, 48, had more than 5,000 images and videos when he was arrested, said prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (<a href=\"http:\/\/capitolcitynow.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CAPITOL CITY NOW<\/a>) \u2013 A Jacksonville man will spent the next decade in federal prison after having and sending child pornography.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office in Springfield, Daniel Brannan, 48, was given 12 years in prison followed by 10 years of parole for Distribution, Receipt, and Possession of Child Pornography.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brannan, prosecutors say, had more than 5,000 images and 34 videos at the time of his arrest last December, and had been trading them.\u00a0 Subjects ranged from toddlers to infants, authorities said, and that he also had material depicting bondage and humiliation.\u00a0 He pleaded guilty back in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brannan could have received up to 20 years in prison, and up to life on parole.\u00a0 The 12 year sentence was in the middle of the sentencing range for the crimes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prosecutors the investigation was part of the federal <a href=\"http:\/\/projectsafechildhood.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Project Safe Childhood<\/a> initiative, designed to combat what it calls an \u201cepidemic\u201d of child sexual exploitation and abuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniel Brannan, 48, had more than 5,000 images and videos when he was arrested, said prosecutors. SPRINGFIELD, Ill.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-424241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}