ALEXANDRIA – Oscar Stamper, 61, of Natchitoches, La., was sentenced to serve 40 years in federal prison for receiving child pornography.

In addition to the prison term, Judge Dee Drell also sentenced Stamper to lifetime supervised release.

Stamper pleaded guilty in April of 2012, to receiving child pornography.

Documents filed with the court prior to sentencing revealed that during an undercover investigation of Limewire, a peer to peer sharing software, law enforcement discovered prepubescent child pornography images on the defendant’s computer.

The child pornography included prepubescent children being sexually assaulted by adults and some images which were sadistic in nature. Stamper confessed to downloading the child and stated that he was the only person in the residence who downloaded anything to the computer.

Prior to the time that Stamper downloaded the child pornography, he was convicted at trial of three counts of indecent behavior with a juvenile in State District Court in Natchitoches. The defendant acknowledged that each of those convictions related to young boys.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to

combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched by the Department of Justice. Led by United States Attorneys' Offices and the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims.

For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office and the U.S. Department of Homeland

Security/Homeland Security Investigations/Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) encourages the public to report suspected child predators and any suspicious activity through its toll-free hotline at 1-866-DHS-2ICE. This hotline is staffed around the clock by investigators.