North Ridgeville man to serve 10 years in prison for child porn

A North Ridgeville man was sentenced to more than 10 years in prison for possessing child pornography.

A news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern district of Ohio indicated Dana F. Cain, 49, pleaded guilty to distribution of child pornography and possession of a computer that contained child pornography in federal court.

Cain was sentenced to 121 months in prison.

The initial complaint filed in November 2017 in the eastern division of U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, said the investigation was a collaborative effort between the North Ridgeville Police Department, Avon Police Department and the FBI and took more than a year before federal charges were filed.

The investigation began in August 2016 when an undercover North Ridgeville police officer was accessing an online peerto-peer file sharing site and identified an IP address, a numeric key that identifies a device connected to the internet, that was the source of files that were titled in a way that led the officer to believe contained child pornography, according to the complaint.

The officer was able to download six movie files containing multiple scenes featuring a young female child being sexually abused by an adult male between August and November of that year.

During that time, an undercover Avon officer independently identified the same IP as a source of child pornography, according to the complaint.

The IP number was tracked to Cain’s Avon Belden Road home where a search warrant was executed March 30, 2017.

In that search, officers seized a Macbook computer belonging to Cain and discovered 167 movie files containing child pornography during a preliminary on-scene examination, according to the complaint.

Cain had downloaded nearly 500 movie files from May 2015 to January 2017 that contained images of toddlers and young girls being raped and sexually assaulted, the release said.

“These are cases with real victims, children whose lives will be forever changed because adults assaulted and violated them,” said U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman, for the Northern District of Ohio, in the release. “We will continue to prosecute those who revictimize these children by sharing and downloading these images.”

The IP number was tracked to Cain’s Avon Belden Road home where a search warrant was executed March 30, 2017.

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