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7^th Circuit Court of Appeals

Case Name: United States of America v. Kyle W. Oberg

Case No.: 17-1546

Officials: WOOD, Chief Judge, MANION, and KANNE, Circuit Judges.

Focus: Sentencing Guidelines

Kyle Oberg possessed large quantities of child pornography that he produced himself. On his home desktop computer, investigators found more than three hundred sexually explicit photos and three videos of his five-year old daughter exposing her genitals. He pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual exploitation of a minor and one count of possession of visual depictions of a minor under age twelve engaged in sexually explicit conduct. The district judge sentenced him to a within-Guidelines, 30-year prison term—the statutory maximum for one count of sexual exploitation, 18 U.S.C. § 2251(e). He argues on appeal that his sentence is substantively unreasonable because the Sentencing Guidelines for child pornography offenses are too severe and because the judge did not correctly weigh the factors set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 3553. We affirm.

Affirmed

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