A Portland man is among 11 men from across the country sentenced to federal prison for sharing pictures and videos on what the U.S. Justice Department calls an international online child pornography network.

Scott Long, 53, was sentenced Oct. 21 in U.S. District Court in Missoula, Mont., to 16 years and eight months in prison for conspiracy to advertise child pornography, court documents said. Long and the other 10 men also were each ordered to pay nearly $30,000 in restitution and surrender their computers and storage devices, according to the Justice Department.

They used an online bulletin board to share child porn between November 2009 and March 2012, federal prosecutors said. The bulletin board, created by one of the men in Montana, was called Kingdom of Future Dreams, court documents said.

The men were found guilty in April and sentenced between Oct. 21 and Oct. 28. Their prison terms ranged from 15 years to almost 19 years.

Two other men were convicted in the case on Oct. 9 and are scheduled to be sentenced in January.

The men are from Washington, Montana, Arizona, Kentucky, Missouri, Indiana, Virginia, Maryland, Massachusetts and New Jersey and their ages range from 23 to 66, according to the Justice Department.

Long's lawyer said his client was sexually abused for three years by the choir director while enrolled at the American Boychoir School in New Jersey during the late '60s and early '70s and was "forever scarred by the experience." Long had not previously disclosed the abuse, according to a sentencing memorandum written by his attorney. But other former students had sued the school over alleged abuse by the choirmaster and other employees, the lawyer said.

Long requested 15 years in prison, the mandatory minimum sentence for his charge, and faced up to 30 years in prison, the memo said. A former classmate of Long's wrote a letter to the U.S. District judge in the case also saying Long was sexually abused while at the school and that it deeply affected him.

Long had "lost interest" in the Kingdom of Future Dreams bulletin board before it was shut down, his attorney wrote, and last posted on the site in August 2011.

"Scott has not had a hands on offense against a child," the memo said. "While abusive and criminal, his participation in (the bulletin board) was more of an Oscar-Wilde-like sexual obsession with youth and beauty, and his underlying illness is partially rooted in the systematic abuse he suffered at the hands of a charismatic mentor and father-figure."

-- Everton Bailey Jr.