A Shaler man who confessed to using a Web camera to send real time pornographic images of his 4-year-old daughter over the Internet pleaded guilty yesterday to receipt of child pornography and was sentenced to 71 months in prison.

Senior U.S. District Judge Alan Bloch also ordered the 35-year-old man to spend the rest of his life on probation.

The suspect is not being identified because the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette does not name accusers or victims in sex abuse cases, and to name him would identify the child.

Federal agents arrested the man last year, after which he confessed to plying his daughter with Hershey's Kisses before transmitting nude images of her online.

Agents found the Web camera under a computer in a common room where the girl played and where his infant son lay in a playpen.

The case developed from an investigation of another man, Wyndell Williams of West Mifflin, who was in turn being prosecuted on child porn charges stemming from an investigation of a Reading-area woman accused of selling her toddler for sex.

The Shaler man's plea yesterday actually had nothing to do with his own daughter, despite his confession and an extensive Internet chat in which he and Williams discussed pornographic images of the girl that the Shaler man says were being taken in real time with a Web camera.

During that chat, Williams also asked the Shaler man how young he likes girls.

"10,14," he answered. "Wish mine was that age now."

He also said he had molested a 13-year-old girl from Bellevue four times.

The two discussed the Shaler man's little girl, according to a transcript, and he then offered her to Williams for sex.

Agents were able to retrieve the chat, but the man did not download the Web cam images to his hard drive. Without the pictures, prosecutors could not pursue him for a more serious charge, such as exploitation of a minor.

A search of his computer did turn up other child porn pictures, however, which are the basis for the charge to which he pleaded.

Williams, meanwhile, is serving nearly seven years in prison.

A former sportswriter, he pleaded guilty in Pittsburgh to possession of porn and also in federal court in Williamsport to charges of lying during a hearing for Angela McCullen, 35, who was charged with using her child in sexually explicit images displayed on the Internet.

She has pleaded guilty, too, and is facing at least 15 years in prison.