Vigilant Antis

Lewis M. Ingalls, 40, formerly of Rochester, pleaded guilty today to receiving child pornography that he downloaded from the Internet.

Ingalls made the plea today before U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa, admitting that he possessed more than 600 sexually explicit images of children on his computer and computer discs.

When he is sentenced March 17, Ingalls faces a mandatory minimum of 15 years and a maximum 40 years in prison, according to U.S. Attorney Terrance P. Flynn.

Ingalls is listed as a high-risk sex offender because he was convicted of attempted first-degree sexual abuse in 1994 for sexually assaulting a girl in Allegany County. He was sentenced to 1 1/3 to four years in prison and was released in 1998.