United States Attorney's Office
Acting United States Attorney Matthew R. Molsen announced that Dustin Lee Vittitoe, 23, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced on April 10, 2025, in federal court in Omaha, for possession of child pornography. United States District Judge Brian C. Buescher sentenced Vittitoe to 97 months’ imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal system. After Vittitoe’s release from prison, he will begin an eight-year term of supervised release.
On January 21, 2023, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office responded to the report of an individual in possession of child pornography on his cell phone. Deputies learned Dustin Lee Vittitoe had child pornography on his cell phone and within the MEGA application contained on his phone. Deputies confirmed the subscriber information for Vittitoe’s MEGA account. On February 22, 2023, deputies served a federal search warrant at Vittitoe’s residence and seized his electronic devices for forensic examination. Investigators forensically extracted and analyzed Vittitoe’s electronic devices. The device extractions showed Vittitoe soliciting and searching for child pornography across several applications. The extractions revealed Vittitoe possessed at least 411 child pornography image files. The files included pornographic images involving prepubescent children, adults having sex with children, and depictions of sadistic and masochistic conduct involving children.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by United States Attorney’s Offices and the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.
This case was investigated by the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office.