{"id":179465,"date":"2026-04-29T18:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T18:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/179465\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T18:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T18:38:08","slug":"lackawanna-county-man-sentenced-for-possession-of-child-sex-abuse-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/179465\/","title":{"rendered":"Lackawanna County man sentenced for possession of child sex abuse material"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lucas Kelsey was sentenced to five to ten years in prison, followed by six years of probation.<\/p>\n

LACKAWANNA COUNTY, Pa. \u2014 A Lackawanna County man could spend up to a decade behind bars for possessing child sexual abuse material.<\/p>\n

According to the State Attorney General’s Office, investigators found hundreds of files containing child sex abuse material in Lucas Kelsey’s<\/a>\u00a0home in Moosic last March.<\/p>\n

Kelsey pleaded guilty in October and was sentenced on Tuesday to five to ten years in prison as well as six years of probation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lucas Kelsey was sentenced to five to ten years in prison, followed by six years of probation. LACKAWANNA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-179465","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\/179465","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=179465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}