A northern Missouri man will serve ten years in federal prison for his child pornography conviction. Nicholas Alex Dickinson, 32, of Newtown, Missouri, was sentenced Monday in federal court in Kansas city.

On June, Dickinson pleaded guilty to receiving child pornography over the Internet, attempting to distribute child pornography over the Internet and possessing child pornography. Dickinson admitted that he used a peer-to-peer file-sharing program to collect and share child pornography over the Internet.

In July of 2012 a detective in Kirksville began an investigation into the downloading of child porn files from a list of computers identified by Internet Crimes Against Children investigators. Law officers executed a search warrant at Dickinson’s home in May, 2013.

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 more than 7,000 images and/or video files of child pornography, in addition to more than 5,000 animation/cartoon files depicting child pornography, more than 2,000 images of child erotica (modeling images), 67 “naturist” videos, four images and two videos of minors depicting bestiality and/or bondage and four documents of written stories related to sexual activity involving children.