Sex offender caught with child porn in halfway house sentenced
ST. LOUIS – A registered sex offender is headed back to federal prison after being found with child pornography at a halfway house in 2022.
Prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri said Eric M. Swancutt, 46, pleaded guilty in January 2024 to one count of receiving child pornography.
In 2017, Swancutt was sentenced in East St. Louis, Illinois, to 97 months in prison after pleading guilty to two counts of receiving child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography.
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Following his release from prison, Swancutt was placed in a residential reentry center near Farmington, Missouri. On Aug. 17, 2022, a staffer at the center found a cellphone hidden in Swancutt’s sock during a search.
Authorities found the phone contained child porn and that Swancutt had searched for the illicit material with the device.
A U.S. District Court judge sentenced Swancutt to 15 years in federal prison.
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