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UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Wayne BEARDSLEY, Defendant-Appellant.
    No. 12-4828.
    United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
    Oct. 29, 2013.
    
      Melissa A. Tuohey (James P. Egan, on the brief), for Lisa A. Peebles, Federal Public Defender, Syracuse, New York, for Appellant.
    Brenda K. Sannes, for Richard Hartuni-an, United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York, Syracuse, New York, for Appellees.
    PRESENT: RALPH K. WINTER, DENNIS JACOBS, and CHESTER J. STRAUB, Circuit Judges.
   SUMMARY ORDER

Defendant Wayne Beardsley appeals from a sentence imposed by the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York (Suddaby, J.), following a guilty plea to receiving and possessing child pornography, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2252A(a)(2)(A) and 2252A(a)(5)(B). Beardsley was sentenced to 180 months’ imprisonment (concurrent with 120 months for the second charge in this case), lifetime supervised release, and a special assessment of $200. On appeal, Beardsley argues the sentence was substantively unreasonable. We assume the parties’ familiarity with the underlying facts, the procedural history, and the issues presented for review.

We review all sentences for reasonableness. United States v. Cossey, 632 F.3d 82, 86 (2d Cir.2011) (citing United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220, 260-62, 125 S.Ct. 738, 160 L.Ed.2d 621 (2005)). “[Substantive reasonableness reduces to a single question: “whether the District Judge abused his discretion in determining that the § 3353(a) factors supported’ the sentence imposed.” United States v. Jones, 531 F.3d 163, 170 (2d Cir.2008). In answering this question, we “set aside a district court’s substantive determination only in exceptional cases where the trial court’s decision cannot be located within the range of permissible decisions.” United States v. Cavera, 550 F.3d 180, 189 (2d Cir.2008) (in banc) (internal quotation marks omitted). See also United States v. Rigas, 583 F.3d 108, 123 (2d Cir.2009) (requiring sentence to be “shockingly high, shockingly low, or otherwise unsupportable” for substantive unreasonableness).

Beardsley challenges the weight given to various sentencing factors in the sentencing decision, but his arguments are unavailing. The district court properly considered Beardsley’s previous conduct as a juvenile in molesting three other children — particularly in light of Beardsley’s subsequent conduct as an adult. Beardsley’s objection to consideration of his juvenile conduct in the presentence report was waived when he failed to object on those grounds during sentencing. See United States v. Caba, 955 F.2d 182, 187 (2d Cir.1992) (holding defendant’s failure to object to the drug quantity assessment in the presentence report at sentencing was a waiver of the issue on appeal). As to his previous conviction for endangering a child, the court properly focused on the conduct underlying the conviction. Beardsley’s argument that the district court failed to adequately weigh his efforts at rehabilitation are unsupported by the record. The district court simply reached a different conclusion after its review: that the failure of Beardsley’s attempts at treatment evidence his threat to the public. There is no reason to disturb the district court’s judgment here.

Finding no merit in Beardsley’s remaining arguments, we hereby AFFIRM the judgment of the district court.