Texas man who ran child obscenity website given 40-year prison sentence

A man was sentenced to 40 years in prison on Tuesday after being convicted of running a website that published materials depicting sexual abuse against children.

A federal jury previously convicted 65-year-old Thomas Alan Arthur of Terlingua, Texas, on Jan. 21 on numerous obscenity counts, including three counts of trafficking in obscene visual representations of sexual abuse of a child, five counts of trafficking in obscene text stories, and one count for selling obscene matters involving the sexual abuse of children, according to the Justice Department.