Warsaw Man Sentenced to Five Years for Receipt of Child Pornography

ROCHESTER, NY—United States Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced Frederick Parker, 33, of Warsaw, N.Y., was sentenced to five years in prison and eight years' supervised release on June 2, 2010. Mr. Parker plead guilty on September 29, 2009, before U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer, to a felony charge of receipt of child pornography.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Tiffany H. Lee, who handled the case, stated that on or about September 28, 2008, the Wyoming County Sheriff's Office obtained a search warrant to search for and seize any computers from the defendant's residence. A computer forensic search was conducted on the defendant's computer and images of child pornography were discovered, including images depicting prepubescent minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct. Wyoming County had first charged Parker with the dissemination of indecent material to a minor after two teenaged victims alleged that they had received sexual explicit e-mails from Parker.

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 Invesitgators from the Wyoming County Sheriff's Office under the direction of Sheriff Farris Heiman, the Wyoming County District Attorney's Office under the direction of Gerald Stout, and special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge James Robertson.