A 21-year-old has been sentenced to seven years probation for disseminating child pornography on his computer from November 2005 through November 2006.

In Mower County Court Oct. 9, Judge Donald Rysavy ordered a stay of imposition for Michael Joseph Anderson, address listed as Fair Hope, Ala. Anderson was sentenced to serve 100 hours of community service and seven years supervised probation.

According to court documents, The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received a tip from the Web site photobucket.com concerning a subscription account suspected of containing child porn.

The tip was forwarded to the St. Paul Police Department’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, which discovered about 100 images of child porn in the photobucket.com account.

On Oct. 3, 2006, a detective with the Austin Police Department was contacted to help with the investigation.

A search warrant was executed Nov. 6, 2006 at the defendant’s mother’s residence in Austin, where a computer, floppy disks and CD-ROMs were seized. The woman told law enforcement she believed the defendant had been viewing the images and videos seized in the search.

In a plea agreement, Anderson pleaded guilty to the first count; a second count, felony possessing pornographic work, was dismissed.