{"id":64770,"date":"2025-12-19T00:18:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T00:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/64770\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T00:18:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T00:18:23","slug":"judge-sentences-northampton-county-man-to-more-than-100-years-in-prison-for-possessing-child-sexual-abuse-material-northampton-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/64770\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge sentences Northampton County man to more than 100 years in prison for possessing child sexual abuse material | Northampton County"},"content":{"rendered":"

HARRISBURG, Pa. – A judge has sentenced a Northampton County man who possessed child sexual abuse material to more than 100 years in prison.<\/p>\n

Judge Brian Panella sentenced 67-year-old Ricky Raisner to 110 to 500 years on more than 50 felony counts, according to a news release from the Pennsylvania Attorney General\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n

Raisner was convicted in July on all charges<\/a>, the AG\u2019s office said. He had been charged with more than 50 felonies.<\/p>\n

The AG\u2019s office said Judge Panella noted the very young ages of the children involved in the images shown during the trial, and the egregious acts depicted.<\/p>\n

The Office of Attorney General\u2019s Child Predator Section responded to a tip and traced an IP address to Raisner\u2019s Mount Bethel home, the AG\u2019s office said in its news release.<\/p>\n

Agents executed a search warrant at the home and seized devices containing child sexual abuse material, the AG\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hope this sentence sends a clear message that possessing child sexual abuse material is exploitation and abuse of children, and will be treated with such severity in court,\u201d Attorney General Dave Sunday said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur Child Predator Section continues to uncover individuals across the Commonwealth viewing, collecting, and sharing these vile materials \u2014 that work will not stop.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRISBURG, Pa. – A judge has sentenced a Northampton County man who possessed child sexual abuse material to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,19529,34476,434,4601,328,16048],"class_list":{"0":"post-64770","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","10":"tag-bethlehem-news","11":"tag-child-sexual-abuse-material","12":"tag-felony-counts","13":"tag-northampton-county","14":"tag-pennsylvania-attorney-general","15":"tag-prison-sentence","16":"tag-sexual-exploitation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64770","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=64770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}