{"id":158648,"date":"2026-04-06T17:06:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/158648\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T17:06:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:06:16","slug":"pittsburgh-man-sentenced-to-more-than-a-decade-in-jail-after-child-porn-conviction-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/158648\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh man sentenced to more than a decade in jail after child porn conviction \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 A Pittsburgh man was handed his sentence on Thursday after being convicted of distributing child pornography. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Justin Hughes, 45, was sentenced in federal court to 15 years in jail, followed by 10 years of supervision, according to the Department of Justice. He was also ordered to pay restitution to a victim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Prosecutors say Hughes sent at least two emails containing child pornography, including 11 video files and an image, to another person in Ohio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Law enforcement connected the emails to Hughes, a registered sex offender in Pennsylvania with a prior sexual abuse conviction around 2007, the DOJ says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Before handing down the sentence, the judge commented on how serious the offenses were and noted the harm done to a victim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 A Pittsburgh man was handed his sentence on Thursday after being convicted of distributing child pornography.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[22087,3646,4738,9317,12499,13366,22071,22072,31,784,22073,8429,22074,22075,22076,22077,22078,22079,4394,15653,740,742,4751,22080,139,557,22081,73,75,74,16632,796,13559,13560,787,7363,3860,788,13471,22082,22083,22084,526,22085,22086,4758,109],"class_list":{"0":"post-158648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-afraid","9":"tag-authority","10":"tag-background","11":"tag-barrier","12":"tag-bars","13":"tag-cell","14":"tag-convict","15":"tag-cover","16":"tag-crime","17":"tag-criminal","18":"tag-escape","19":"tag-free","20":"tag-illegal","21":"tag-illustrative","22":"tag-imprisonment","23":"tag-incarceration","24":"tag-incidents","25":"tag-iron","26":"tag-jail","27":"tag-judgment","28":"tag-justice","29":"tag-law","30":"tag-legal","31":"tag-modern","32":"tag-news","33":"tag-old","34":"tag-penitentiary","35":"tag-pittsburgh","36":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","37":"tag-pittsburgh-news","38":"tag-press","39":"tag-prison","40":"tag-protect","41":"tag-protection","42":"tag-punishment","43":"tag-safety","44":"tag-security","45":"tag-sentence","46":"tag-steel","47":"tag-stereotype","48":"tag-symbolic","49":"tag-term","50":"tag-time","51":"tag-trapped","52":"tag-typical","53":"tag-verdict","54":"tag-violence"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}