I BELIEVE YOU. I HAVE READ YOUR SENTENCING HEARING IN EACH OF THESE CASES FOR WHICH WE HAVE TRANSCRIPTS. THERE ARE SEVERAL FOR WHICH WE DO NOT HAVE TRANSCRIPTS. IN EACH OF THE CASES YOU READ FROM THE SAME SCRIPT. YOU SAY THAT THE DISTRIBUTION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY IS AN EXTREMELY SERIOUS FEDERAL CRIME. YOU POINT OUT THAT THE CRIME INVOLVES PEOPLE TAKING PICTURES AND VIDEOS OF REAL CHILDREN WHILE THE CHILDREN ARE BEING SEXUALLY ABUSED. IN HAS YOU POINTED OUT HE HAD HUNDREDS OF IMAGES OF CHILDREN EACH OF THE CRIME. IN THE PAST YOU POINTED OUT THAT HE HAD HUNDREDS OF IMAGES OF CHILDREN IN SEXUALLY COMPROMISING POSITIONS. SOME OF THEM ENGAGING IN SADOMASOCHISTIC ACTS. I AM READING THIS FROM YOU ON THE BENCH. THE CHILDREN IN THESE PICTURES ARE NOT KNOWING OR WILLING IN THE DEGRADING MANNER THEY ARE BEEN PICKED IT. UNSPEAKABLE ACTS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE FOR THE PLEASURE OF PEOPLE FILMING THEM AND THE GRATIFICATION OF PEOPLE EVERYWHERE. WHAT CONCERNS ME IS MANY OF THOSE PEOPLE HAVE NO SHRED OF EMPATHY. FOR WHAT THAT CONDUCT DOES FOR THE CHILDREN BEING ABUSED IN THIS WAY. YOU READ THE SCRIPT IN EVERYONE ONE OF THESE CASES. TALK ABOUT THESE ARE TERRIBLE CRIMES. BUT YOU ALSO SAY, I HAVE TO SAY WHAT I FOUND PARTICULARLY DISTURBING ABOUT YOUR OFFENSE WAS THAT YOU APPARENTLY CONCOCTED PHOTOGRAPHING YOUR OWN DAUGHTER WHO YOU WERE REPORTEDLY WILLING TO TAKE PICTURES OF THE TRADE WITH OTHER PEOPLE. I KNOW FROM YOUR COMMENTS AND THOSE FROM THOSE WHO KNOW YOU THAT YOU ARE UNLIKELY TO HARM A CHILD. BUT IN THE CONTEXT OF THE CRIME, YOU REPRESENTED THAT YOU WOULD. SO YOU TALK ABOUT IT AS ASTONISHING. WHAT IS STRIKING IS AND HALF OF THEM, FIVE, YOU SENTENCED THEM TO THE ABSOLUTE LOWEST SENTENCE UNDER LAW. LET'S LOOK AT UNITED STATES VERSUS CHIASSON. CHIASSON IS A PARTICULARLY NASTY CASE. IN CHIASSON, THE DEFENDANT WAS ACCUSED OF ACCESS TO A DROPBOX THAT CONTAINED 35 VIDEOS AND PARTIALLY PREPUBESCENT FEMALES ENGAGING IN SEXUALLY EXPLICIT EVENTS. IN INSTANCES PREPUBESCENT FEMALES WERE ENGAGING IN SEXUAL ACTIVITY WITH ADULT MEN. THE IMAGES INCLUDED THE SEXUAL ABUSE OF CHILDREN, INCLUDING THOSE AS YOUNG AS TODDLERS. SEVERAL OF THESE CASES YOU HAD INVOLVED SEXUAL ABUSE OF TODDLERS, TRULY HORRIFYING. CHIASSON PLEADED GUILTY. THE GUIDELINES RECOMMENDED A SENTENCE OF 78 TO 98 MONTHS. THE PROSECUTION ARGUED THAT SHOULD BE WHAT THE SENTENCE WAS. YOU SENTENCE CHINESE IN 228 MONTHS. WHY DID YOU SENTENCE SOMEONE WHO HAD CHILD PORNOGRAPHY OF TODDLERS BEING SEXUALLY ABUSED 228 MONTHS, 64% BELOW WITH THE PROSECUTORS ASKED? 