United States Attorney Ronald C. Gathe, Jr. announced that U.S. District Judge John W. deGravelles sentenced Norman Antoine LeBlanc, age 34, of Morganza, Louisiana, to 210 months in federal prison following his conviction for production and attempted production of child pornography. LeBlanc must serve six years of supervised release upon completing his term of imprisonment, and he must complete sex offender treatment. The Court also ordered LeBlanc to pay $15,000 in restitution. As a result of this conviction, LeBlanc will be required to register as a sex offender.
LeBlanc produced videos and images of a minor child engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Specifically, LeBlanc secretly recorded videos of a minor in the bathroom and made sexually explicit still shots from the video. LeBlanc then used a mobile application and a smartphone to send images and videos of the minor to an undercover agent in North Carolina. LeBlanc also used the mobile application to distribute approximately 97 videos and 9 images of child pornography.
This matter was investigated by the United States Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations, and the Louisiana Bureau of Investigation. The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Edward H. Warner.
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 in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and 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 http://www.justice.gov/psc.