JC man pleads guilty to distributing child porn

A Jefferson City man has pleaded guilty in federal court to distributing child pornography over the Internet.

Dominic J. Veit, 39, admitted that he distributed child pornography over the Internet on Jan. 14, 2011. Veit also pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography from Jan. 14 to March 3, 2011.

An FBI agent in New York identified Veit's computer as sharing child pornography on the Internet through a peer-to-peer file-sharing network during a national investigation, Innocent Images. Law enforcement officers executed a search warrant at Veit's residence on March 3, 2011, and found a computer in his bedroom that contained hundreds of images of child pornography, including images of child bestiality and movies of child pornography. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children confirmed that there were 43 known series of identifiable child pornographic images contained on Veit's computer.

Veit must forfeit to the government a laptop computer, a computer tower, four hard drives and other computer equipment that was used to commit the offense.