COOPERSBURG, Pa. —\u00a0A Lehigh County man was sentenced to state prison on Friday after pleading guilty to distributing images and videos depicting child sexual abuse.<\/p>\n
Cody Aaron Smith, 32, of Coopersburg, was sentenced to 10 to 30 years in state prison and was also determined to be a sexually-violent predator, according to the Lehigh County District Attorney’s Office.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Smith pleaded guilty in September to four felony charges of Disseminating Photo\/Film of Child Sex Acts, according to court paperwork.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Police received several tips on various dates in 2024 from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children regarding Child Sex Abuse Material being distributed, officials said.<\/p>\n
The investigation was extensive and included multiple subpoenas and search warrants as well as interviews and two electronic device extractions, according to authorities.<\/p>\n
Officials say the investigation revealed Smith was responsible for disseminating and possessing more than 1,600 Child Sex Abuse Material files.<\/p>\n
Smith used Kik, a free instant messaging app, to share videos and images of adults performing sexual acts upon infants and toddler children, according to the DA’s office.<\/p>\n
This case was investigated by Upper Saucon Township Detective Dane Carroll and was prosecuted by Senior Deputy District Attorney Sarah K. Heimbach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COOPERSBURG, Pa. —\u00a0A Lehigh County man was sentenced to state prison on Friday after pleading guilty to distributing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,31,8178],"class_list":["post-205688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-crime","tag-southern-lehigh-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205688","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=205688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}