Press release:
Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Jerald Kicinski, 50, of East Bethany, who was convicted of receipt of child pornography, was sentenced to 20 years in prison and lifetime supervised release by Chief U.S. District judge William M. Skretny.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Marie P. Grisanti, who handled the case, stated that between December 2010 and December 14, 2011, the defendant received child pornography on his computer at his residence in East Bethany. These images had been transmitted to the defendant in interstate commerce via the Internet. Kicinski was previously convicted of sexual abuse in the second degree in 2002 and sexual abuse in the third degree in 1990. Both of the defendant's prior convictions involved minors.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by United States Attorneys General Offices and the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.
The sentencing is the culmination of an investigation on the part of Special Agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security Investigations, under the direction of James C. Spero, special agent in charge.
wow twenty years in prison
wow twenty years in prison for having digital images on a computer ..... seems like overkill to me ....... you can kill people and get less time ......
You would rather we wait til
You would rather we wait til he has a victim list like Sean Vickers before we sentence him? Seems like effective enforcement to prevent victims from being created to me. (Not that the kids in the pics arent victims enough already)
Let's not forget the
Let's not forget the priors...
"Kicinski was previously convicted of sexual abuse in the second degree in 2002 and sexual abuse in the third degree in 1990. Both of the defendant's prior convictions involved minors."
kyle, what you're saying is
kyle, what you're saying is kind of like the "pre-emptive strike", instead of dropping a bomb out of an airplane , you put a man in prison for twenty years because of what you think he may do in the future.....
Dave, why is it difficult for
Dave, why is it difficult for you to understand that the crime has already been committed? The children used are already victims and the handlers are criminals of the highest order, including the end user(s). This is not a case of pre-emption. IMO anyone guilty of child pornography and/or child sexual abuse should never bet let out.