{"id":179440,"date":"2026-04-29T17:54:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T17:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/179440\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T17:54:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T17:54:20","slug":"lackawanna-county-man-sentenced-for-having-200-child-sexual-abuse-material-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/179440\/","title":{"rendered":"Lackawanna County Man Sentenced for Having 200+ Child Sexual Abuse Material Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pennwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/prison-fence-with-barbed-wire-SBI-351267353-scaled.jpg\" data-caption=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/prison-fence-with-barbed-wire-SBI-351267353-696x392.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"prison-fence-with-barbed-wire-SBI-351267353\"\/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>A Lackawanna County man will serve up to a decade in state prison for possessing 201 files of child sexual abuse material.<\/p>\n<p>A Lackawanna County Judge sentenced\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/u7061146.ct.sendgrid.net\/ls\/click?upn=u001.gqh-2BaxUzlo7XKIuSly0rC-2BfjGxkJJgs7PKCoQSAlnk1U-2F6OJ54cOTe7jE70xhk9IncwKucnsErRBoshhypciUqygk9YhtWAMLQvNCfA6VlUVWUw04D-2B-2FL5JIPnjqJv2eiwT75C9P4rrlTA-2F1Q4EhzB-2BfgQzuc9mArR-2BBd83iNkA-3Dv9EN_akXAv2WTnqeQnEsF3tq-2BxplvmcSOU7QtlyE5CK0mFbeGv7cSytAlAp44miza3g8TjL7z9PM5U1hmzuZWrIntj-2BPX7fK1KRs9fWkZSdBdnbYAAn9VJsC7XWyy-2BnXixeiTZX5sKnK-2FKB8vFiFgWMCn-2BTgWTaHBjQUWSiVcV7M08WM-2Fg-2F7a7WSaBDyCzVmmvl5WzxYByZN-2BWtRkgthNUFPjCfsZVjotqTZMbV2ymKBu8Y6ZRoDqpTVHdFGVvvBzKjbwrtFm5WOCeLDB6yLxyaErDTEJxwNaVQZqvcT6hrBN95sTf9oTheok0ck5II6QpscQuifhPkczkX4GqfmKwBNkuw-3D-3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Lucas E. Kelsey<\/a>\u00a0to 5 to 10 years in prison, plus six years of probation, regarding felony charges filed last year by the Office of Attorney General\u2019s Child Predator Section.<\/p>\n<p>Kelsey pleaded guilty in October and was sentenced Tuesday. He must also register his whereabouts with police, following release from prison, for 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPossessing child sexual abuse material is not a victimless crime, and this prosecution and sentence should make clear the severity of this heinous conduct,\u201d Attorney General Sunday said. \u201cDownloading and viewing this material is child abuse. I commend our Child Predator Section for continuing to seek out offenders and hold them accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Agents served a search warrant at Kelsey\u2019s Moosic home in March 2025 and found the material on hard drives.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pennwatchmedia.com\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"a2t-link\" aria-label=\"PW_2024_LeaderAd\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PW_2024_LeaderAd.png\" alt=\"\"   width=\"728\" height=\"90\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Lackawanna County man will serve up to a decade in state prison for possessing 201 files of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-179440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179440","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=179440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}