Clyde Man Sentenced to 10 Years in Child Pornography Case
| U.S. Attorney’s Office February 04, 2011 |
ROCHESTER, NY—U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Lewis S. Patt, Jr., 23, of Clyde, New York, was sentenced to 120 months in prison for possession of child pornography and 20 years’ supervised release by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer. Judge Larimer ordered the 10-year sentence to be served consecutively to a five-year state sentence Patt is currently serving for a sexual abuse conviction in Wayne County.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Tiffany H. Lee, who handled the case, stated that in October 2005, the defendant knowingly possessed child pornography images on a laptop computer and on a video cassette he owned. Some of the images found on the laptop depicted children under the age of 12 engaging in sexually explicit conduct. The video cassette contained a movie produced by Patt which depicted him engaging in sexually explicit conduct with a minor. The defendant had obtained many of the images he possessed by accessing file-sharing servers where he uploaded and downloaded child pornography for trading purposes.
The sentence was the culmination of an investigation on the part of special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge James Robertson.