I wonder how young those "children" were?
There is a big difference between 7 and 17.
I see that the article says INFANTS! Infants are UNDER 1 year of age! I can't and won't try to imagine what that involved. Whose infant children were these?
I went to school with a guy who had consensual sex with a girl that was 17 years and 10 months old. Two more months and she would have been legal. He admitted it immediately, made no attempt to deny it, so they let him off easy and he ONLY served 18 years in prison. When he got out, his wife had divorced him, and his two kids were long gone.
The guy was a jerk, so he probably benefitted from it.
Subway's Jared Fogle was raping children, both girls and boys, recording them, and sharing the videos. He was recorded saying "the younger the better" and one of the boys was just 4 years old. He got a 15 year sentence and is scheduled for release in 2029.
Something else puzzling. If this guy was sending and receiving hundreds of child porn videos, WHY was he only charged with ONE COUNT of Child Porn?