READING, Pa. \u2013 A Berks County man was sentenced to 20 years in prison for child pornography charges.<\/p>\n
United States Attorney David Metcalf announced that Matthew McKinney, 28, of Reading, was sentenced Tuesday to 240 months\u2019 imprisonment, 15 years of supervised release, and various financial penalties, including $98,500 in restitution to victims, for child pornography offenses.<\/p>\n
In addition, McKinney is subject to mandatory registration as a sex offender under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (\u201cSORNA\u201d) and Megan\u2019s Law, according to a news release from Metcalf.<\/p>\n
Metcalf says McKinney was arrested on a criminal complaint and warrant in August of last year, charged by information in October, and pleaded guilty in November to one count each of distribution of child pornography and receipt of child pornography.<\/p>\n
As detailed in court filings and statements, McKinney came to investigators\u2019 attention based on his communications with the subject of an FBI New York investigation into the Telegram account \u201cSteve Jobs\u201d @perv_94, which was used to trade child sexual abuse material (\u201cCSAM\u201d) with other Telegram users.<\/p>\n
Authorities say in reviewing the \u201cSteve Jobs\u201d @perv_94 Telegram account, FBI New York observed communications between it and a Telegram user with the display name of \u201cUnknown 69.\u201d The communications contained both the distribution and receipt of CSAM.<\/p>\n
On May 26, 2025, the \u201cSteve Jobs\u201d @perv_94 Telegram account sent the \u201cUnknown 69\u201d account approximately 80 video files containing CSAM that primarily depicted female children, some of whom were pre-pubescent, engaging in sexual conduct, the U.S. attorney says.<\/p>\n
On July 29, 2025, the \u201cUnknown 69\u201d account then sent \u201cSteve Jobs\u201d @perv_94 four files containing CSAM, including depictions of pre-pubescent children engaging in sexual conduct, according to the release. Court documents say the \u201cUnknown 69\u201d account additionally sent a MEGA link, which contained approximately 1,100 video files containing CSAM, including depictions of pre-pubescent children engaged in sexual conduct. Authorities say some of the video files shared between the accounts depicted the sexual abuse of children as young as infants and toddlers.<\/p>\n
Investigators say after obtaining subscriber information and other records, FBI Allentown agents determined that McKinney was the user of the \u201cUnknown 69\u201d account, which McKinney subsequently admitted in an interview.<\/p>\n
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by United States Attorneys\u2019 Offices and the Criminal Division\u2019s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to better locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit projectsafechildhood.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n The case was investigated by FBI Philadelphia\u2019s Allentown Resident Agency and FBI New York and prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Rebecca J. Kulik.<\/p>\n \nCopyright 2026 Maranatha Broadcasting Co., Inc.. All Rights Reserved.\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. \u2013 A Berks County man was sentenced to 20 years in prison for child pornography charges.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2675,7259,412,3635,94874,107359,128,130,129,77720,35870,16048,56568],"class_list":["post-310878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-child-abuse","tag-child-pornography","tag-criminal-sentencing","tag-fbi","tag-megan","tag-project-safe-childhood","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-restitution","tag-sex-offender","tag-sexual-exploitation","tag-telegram"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310878","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=310878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}