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Man Sentenced in Child Pornography Case

U.S. Attorney’s Office May 20, 2010
  • Western District of New York (716) 843-5700

BUFFALO, NY—U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Raymond Mason, 38, of Frewsburg, New York, State, who was convicted of Possession of Child Pornography and Attempted Receipt of Child Pornography on February 5, 2010, was sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment, followed by lifetime supervision by U.S. Richard J. Arcara, U.S. District Judge. Judge Arcara also ordered Mason to undergo sex offender treatment while incarcerated and following his release from prison and to register as a sex offender.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Marie P. Grisanti, who handled the case, stated that the defendant, Raymond Mason, admitted taking nude photographs of a six year old child on multiple occasions, going to approximately 50 websites containing child pornography and attempting to purchase three child pornography videotapes through the mail.

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 www.projectsafechildhood.gov.

The plea was the culmination of an investigation on the part of Postal Inspectors of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, under the direction of Robert Bethel, Inspector in Charge of the Boston Division, the Ellicott Police Department, under the direction of William Ohnmeiss, Jr., Chief of Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation under the direction of James H. Robertson, Special Agent in Charge.

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