A Cumberland man will spend 10 years in federal prison for running an online child pornography bulletin board with about 140 members.
70-year-old George Sell will be sentenced in January after pleading guilty Wednesday to conspiracy to transport child porn
Sell and otheracknowledges he was the top administrator of a secure website called Country Lounge that traded pornographic pictures and videos of children as young as 6. He ran it from December 2006 through August 2008.
Prosecutors say the network was hosted on computer servers in Virginia and Texas.
A co-conspirator, 47-year-old Terry Nolley of Silver Spring, is also scheduled for sentencing Jan. 25. He pleaded guilty in October to participating in the bulletin board.
