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33-year-old Patrick Wiseman of East Lansing was sentenced in federal court to 20 years' incarceration or trading in child pornography Wednesday. Wiseman was also sentenced to a lifetime term of supervised release.

Wiseman had a prior sex offense conviction in Florida for possession of child pornography in 2003, and served 30 months in prison. He was discovered sharing child pornography through the Internet in 2011.

In July 2011, the FBI executed a search warrant on Wiseman's home and seized his computer. While that investigation was pending, Wiseman purchased another computer and began sharing even more child pornography through the Internet. The FBI, along with Homeland Security, executed another search warrant on Wiseman's home in March 2012. Wiseman's computer was seized, he was arrested and held in custody.

At Wiseman's sentencing, Judge Neff expressed dismay and disgust at Wiseman's collection of violent and brutal images of children being sexually assaulted. The investigation disclosed Wiseman's chat communications, where he boasted that he sexually assaulted and beat children. Wiseman claimed that the chat communications were merely fantasies, however, Judge Neff found that his statements, even if fantasies, were true expressions of his desire to brutalize and sexually assault children and that he posed an extremely high risk to children.