{"id":177582,"date":"2026-04-27T21:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T21:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/177582\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T21:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T21:17:10","slug":"pittsburgh-woman-sentenced-to-prison-on-federal-charges-related-to-child-sex-abuse-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/177582\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh woman sentenced to prison on federal charges related to child sex abuse material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 A Pittsburgh woman who pleaded guilty to federal charges of distributing and possessing child sex abuse material has received her sentence. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">On Monday, the Department of Justice said Marissa Lynn Segal, 32, was sentenced to 7.5 years in prison and ordered to pay $13,000 in restitution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Investigators said Segal distributed videos and photos of minors being exploited. Some of the material distributed included videos of babies and acts of bestiality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">She <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/pittsburgh-woman-pleads-guilty-possessing-distributing-child-sex-abuse-material\/2QPX2EFY3BDSPDQ5C33JRJ4LYQ\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/pittsburgh-woman-pleads-guilty-possessing-distributing-child-sex-abuse-material\/2QPX2EFY3BDSPDQ5C33JRJ4LYQ\/\">pleaded guilty to the crimes in January.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The investigation leading up to her arrest was led by the FBI and part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in 2006.<\/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 woman who pleaded guilty to federal charges of distributing and possessing child sex abuse&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4737,10094,3646,4738,40880,8216,4591,60,4741,21941,449,4742,786,31,784,15649,20608,15651,4746,744,4747,15652,4036,4748,4586,4749,15653,4011,15654,60844,740,742,3430,4751,69295,393,4752,15655,4043,73,75,74,15657,787,6436,4756,4757,1112,40881,4758,15658,15659],"class_list":{"0":"post-177582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-attorney","9":"tag-auction","10":"tag-authority","11":"tag-background","12":"tag-barrister","13":"tag-book","14":"tag-brown","15":"tag-business","16":"tag-concept","17":"tag-constitution","18":"tag-court","19":"tag-courthouse","20":"tag-courtroom","21":"tag-crime","22":"tag-criminal","23":"tag-decision","24":"tag-document","25":"tag-equality","26":"tag-gavel","27":"tag-government","28":"tag-guilt","29":"tag-hammer","30":"tag-horizontal","31":"tag-innocence","32":"tag-judge","33":"tag-judgement","34":"tag-judgment","35":"tag-judicial","36":"tag-juridical","37":"tag-jurisdiction","38":"tag-justice","39":"tag-law","40":"tag-lawyer","41":"tag-legal","42":"tag-legal-system","43":"tag-legislation","44":"tag-litigation","45":"tag-mallet","46":"tag-order","47":"tag-pittsburgh","48":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","49":"tag-pittsburgh-news","50":"tag-prosecution","51":"tag-punishment","52":"tag-right","53":"tag-symbol","54":"tag-system","55":"tag-trial","56":"tag-tribunal","57":"tag-verdict","58":"tag-wood","59":"tag-wooden"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177582","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=177582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}