{"id":318143,"date":"2026-10-31T06:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T06:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/318143\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T06:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T06:46:08","slug":"west-pittston-man-gets-9-years-for-child-sex-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/318143\/","title":{"rendered":"West Pittston man gets 9 years for child sex images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A West Pittston man has been sentenced to serve nine years in federal prison for distributing child sex images, according to the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Edward Stephen Neil, 29, previously pleaded guilty to distributing child sex images after being accused of using a peer-to-peer network to share graphic sexual images of children being sexually assaulted.<\/p>\n<p>A search of his home in November 2024 turned up multiple devices containing child sex images, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Julia K. Munley imposed the sentence Tuesday, ordering Neil to serve nine years followed by 10 years of parole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A West Pittston man has been sentenced to serve nine years in federal prison for distributing child sex&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[46,182,803,139,28,178,180,179,802],"class_list":["post-318143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-courts","tag-local-news","tag-luzerne-county","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-top-stories-cvc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318143","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=318143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}