Hudson man sentenced to federal prison on child pornography charges

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ALBANY – A Hudson man was sentenced Wednesday to 42 months in prison for repeatedly accessing a child pornography web site available only through an anonymous Internet network.

As part of his guilty plea on December 11, 2019, Brian Northup admitted that in 2015, he accessed “Playpen,” an online forum through which registered users advertised, viewed and distributed child pornography.

Images and videos shared through the site were categorized according to victim age and gender, and type of sexual activity depicted.

Before the FBI seized the Playpen website and shut it down, it was available only through an anonymous Internet network, which allowed users to access websites including Playpen without revealing their actual Internet protocol address, geographic location, or other identifying information.

Northup admitted that he logged into Playpen in order to download child pornography content.




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