A Gwinnett County man who provided an internet site where people could download child pornography is headed to prison, officials said.
Thomas Scot Edvalson’s computers were seized in September 2012, after officials got a tip that he was distributing illegal images of children, Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office spokesman Dan Mayfield said in a news release.
That tip came from someone who provided officials with subscriber information. The webhost, GoDaddy, confirmed the owner’s address and sent some of the illegal images to Gwinnett County police.
A search warrant executed on Edvalson’s residence revealed computers rife with images of child sexual abuse.
Information presented in the court case showed the website Edvalson managed contained an online guide for how to use the dark web to set up a website for trading images of child sexual abuse.
It took a jury about an hour Wednesday to convict the now 28-year-old on 22 counts of sexual exploitation of children, Mayfield said.
Edvalson was sentenced to 60 years, with the first 20 years served in confinement.
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