A man, who used a computer file-sharing program under the screen name “fallenone666” to trade child pornography, was sentenced Thursday by United States District Judge Richard W. Story to serve five years in federal prison.

Andrew John Googins, 29, of Cumming, pleaded guilty to distribution, receipt and possession of child pornography on February 3, 2012.

“This defendant collected an enormous number – more than 120,000 – of horrible images and videos portraying the sexual abuse of young children,” said United States Attorney Sally Quillian Yates in a press release. “Googins amassed the collection using computer software, and shared the pornography over the Internet with other offenders. He has justly earned a significant sentence for his role in victimizing these children.”

Googins’s five-year prison sentence will be followed by supervised release for the rest of his life.

Googins was arrested in October 2010, as the result of

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