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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – A 46-year-old Columbia man was sentenced in federal court Thursday for possessing child pornography.

Norman Troxel was sentenced to six years and six months in federal prison without parole.

Troxel pleaded guilty on Jan. 18, 2012 to possessing child pornography. He admitted that he possessed child pornography from Dec. 19, 2009, to June 17, 2010.

A man repairing Troxel’s computer found between 50 and 100 videos of suspected child pornography while working on the laptop. When authorities examined the device, they identified 31 out of 79 videos of children as child pornography and many of the 192 photographs of children as child erotica.

When officers searched Troxel’s home, they found a Sony camcorder and an 8mm tape that had been created by recording from his television as it displayed images and videos of children being sexually molested. The videotape contained an hour and 30 minutes of images and videos of children as young as three years of age being sexually molested.