A Newtown, Missouri man faces federal child pornography charges after investigators found thousands of pornographic images and videos on his home computer.

US Attorney Tammy Dickinson announced the indictment Tuesday.

Nicholas Alex Dickinson, 31, is charged with possessing and receiving child pornography and possessing child obscenity.

The indictment alleges that Dickinson received child pornography over the Internet on April 23, 2013. Dickinson is also charged with possessing child pornography and with possessing obscene material – such as cartoons or animation of child pornography that were also obtained over the Internet – on May 2, 2013.

According to court documents, law enforcement officers executed a search warrant at Dickinson’s residence on May 2, 2013 based on a peer-to-peer file-sharing investigation. Officers seized a laptop computer, an external hard drive and other computer media during their search. A forensic examination of the computer and computer media determined that Dickinson had saved thousands of images and/or video files of child pornography, in addition to thousands of files relating to child obscenity.

Prior to the execution of the search warrant, officer’s monitored Dickinson’s online activities. According to court documents, Dickinson used the peer-to-peer file sharing program to offer to share child pornography virtually every day in April 2013.