A 50-year-old Suffolk man pleaded guilty in federal court on Tuesday to receiving images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.

Jamie Lee Sorrentino faces at least five years in jail as a result of the offenses. He will be sentenced on Sept. 12, according to Dana J. Boente, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.

According to a press release from Boente’s office, Suffolk police secured a search warrant for Sorrentino’s home in June 2016 after determining that a computer user at his address was distributing pornographic images of children via a peer-to-peer file-sharing program.

When they searched Sorrentino’s home, police found electronic media that contained more than 50,000 images and videos of child pornography. Later that day, Sorrentino confessed that the images and videos were his, the press release stated.

Sorrentino’s capture was a result of Project Safe Childhood, a federal effort to fight the growth of child sexual exploitation and abuse that was launched in 2006 by the Department of Justice.

Using a combination of federal, state and local resources, the initiative seeks to “locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims,” according to the release.