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STAMFORD -- A former Stamford man was federally indicted on child porn Thursday for allegedly photographing himself engaged in sexual acts with an 8-year-old girl.

William Oehne, 49, of Amelia, Va., is charged with one count of production of child pornography and one count of distribution of child pornography.

Oehne has been in federal custody since March 31, 2009, when he was arrested at his home in Virginia, according to Tom Carson, spokesman for the U. S. Attorney's Office, District of Connecticut.

From 2004 to 2006, Oehne is alleged to have manufactured a series of child sexual abuse images known to law enforcement as the "Tori" series and distributed the explicit pictures through the Internet, according to Carson.

The girl was 8 years old when Oehne began to abuse her, Carson said. Oehne allegedly enticed the girl into performing sex acts by promising her gifts, according to Carson.

For more than three years, the FBI and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children conducted an exhaustive investigation to identify the child victim in a widely circulated "Tori" child porn series, according to FBI documents.

The FBI used the information in the image to obtain a court order directing the Social Security Administration to provide information on all filers in the tax year 2006 who claimed a dependent child named Victoria or any variant of it, the FBI said.

The information that the FBI received via the court order resulted in the dissemination of action leads to 29 field offices, directing them to compare the dependent children residing in their territory to the sanitized images depicting "Tori," according to the FBI.

On March 30, 2009, the victim was interviewed by a specialist from the FBI Office of Victim Assistance, where she identified the subject and disclosed the sexual abuse that had taken place, as well as documented in images, the FBI said.

This investigation was conducted by the New Haven branch of the FBI, the FBI's Richmond Innocent Images National Initiative Task Force in Virginia and local police in Connecticut. The charge of production of child pornography carries a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of 15 years, a maximum term of imprisonment of 30 years and a fine of up to $250,000.

Distribution of child pornography carries a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of five years, a maximum term of imprisonment of 20 years and a fine of up to $250,000.

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