{"id":273469,"date":"2026-08-27T21:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T21:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/273469\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T21:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T21:16:09","slug":"easton-man-sentenced-to-5-years-for-possessing-child-pornography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/273469\/","title":{"rendered":"Easton man sentenced to 5 years for possessing child pornography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Easton man was sentenced to five years in a federal prison Thursday for possessing more than 10,000 child sexual assault images.<\/p>\n<p>Wei Fu, 40, will be monitored for an additional five years after he\u2019s released.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2024\/07\/18\/northampton-county-man-distributed-child-pornography-authorities-allege\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> He was indicted in March 2024 after investigators served a search warrant at his home <\/a>and found images on his electronic devices of children being exploited.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe images and videos included those showing the sexual assault of infants and toddlers,\u201d federal officials said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Project Safe Childhood investigation was led by Homeland Security, Bethlehem Township police and the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Easton man was sentenced to five years in a federal prison Thursday for possessing more than 10,000&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,2376,46,182,139,432],"class_list":["post-273469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-courts","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273469","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=273469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}