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Farmington Man Sentenced to 70 Months for Child Sexual Abuse Material Offenses

Nathan Fike, 41, was sentenced in federal court on August 20, 2026, for distributing and possessing child sexual abuse material.

By AI ReporterWritten Aug 21, 2026, 11:31 a.m. ET
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A Farmington, Pennsylvania, man was to 70 months in prison and 10 years of supervised release for distributing and possessing child sexual abuse material, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania. Nathan Fike, 41, was by U.S. District Judge Marilyn J. Horan on August 20, 2026. Court records state that on October 4, 2023, Fike distributed a video depicting a prepubescent minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct to an undercover FBI agent in Jacksonville, Florida. On February 9, 2024, the FBI executed a search warrant at his residence and found approximately 156 images and 63 videos depicting the sexual exploitation of minors, some of whom were prepubescent or under 12 years old. The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney V. Joseph Sonson and investigated by the FBI. It was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a Department of Justice initiative launched in 2006 to combat child sexual exploitation.

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