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Georgia men sentenced to prison for attempting to leave country with child porn
By FOX 5 Digital Team
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CANTON, Ga. - A Georgia man has been sentenced to prison after officials say he was caught trying to leave the country with a cell phone and tablet filled with more than 100 files of child pornography.
According to officials, the investigation began in January of 2020, when special agents with Homeland Security received a tip that 40-year-old Canton resident Nathaniel Barber could have been planning to leave the U.S. to commit sex crimes with underage victims.
Agents discovered Barber had bought a ticket to the Philipines and stopped him at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Jan. 28 as he was preparing the board his plane.
A Canton man was sentenced to prison on Friday for trying to leave the country in Jan. 2020 with devices containing over 100 files of child pornography.
According to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia, 40-year-old Nathaniel Barber also reportedly belonged to an online group that shared videos and photographs of child pornography.
“Every video and image of child pornography is a crime scene depicting the sexual abuse of a child,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Kurt R. Erskine. “This case reaffirms our office’s determination to leverage our federal, state, and local law enforcement partnerships to prosecute individuals who revictimize exploited children by downloading and viewing these horrific images.”