BENTON – A 55-year-old Buckner man was handed a hefty sentence in U.S. District Court for accessing child pornography images online, according to U.S. Attorney Stephen R. Wigginton.
Richard Faling, 55, of Buckner, pleaded guilty to the charges Aug. 14 and he was sentenced to 210 months in prison, given a $500 fine and a lifetime of supervised release.
According to the evidence presented at sentencing Faling had previously been convicted in Illinois for sex offenses involving children. After his release from prison for that offense, authorities discovered that Faling had been accessing child pornography from his computer at his Buckner residence.
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