Niagara County Man Charged with Receipt of Child Pornography Takes Plea

BUFFALO, NY—A Niagara County man, Mitchell Brokob, age 41, who previously pled guilty in Niagara County on charges that he kidnaped, drugged, and sexually assaulted a young girl at knifepoint as she waited for her school bus in North Tonawanda last March, pled guilty to receipt of child pornography today in federal court, announced U.S. Attorney Terrance P. Flynn of the Western District of New York. The plea carries an agreed-upon sentence of 20 years, the statutory maximum.

Assistant U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr., stated that a computer recovered from Brokob's North Tonawanda residence in June of 2008, contained images of child pornography and that a forensic analysis of the computer revealed that search terms including "preteen child rape porn" and "cold steel knives" had been typed on the computer.

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’ 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

The plea was the culmination of a cooperative investigation and prosecution on the part of the Niagara County District Attorney’s Office, under the direction of District Attorney Michael J. Violante, the North Tonawanda Police Department, under the direction of Chief Randy Szukala,

and Special Agents of the Buffalo Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, under the direction of Laurie Bennett, Special Agent in Charge.

Sentencing is scheduled for May 11, 2009, at 12:30 p.m. EST, in Buffalo, N.Y., in front of Chief U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.