Scotia Man Sentenced on Child Pornography Charge

ALBANY, NY—United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and John F. Pikus, Special Agent-in-Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Albany Division, announced that ADAM SLUSARZ, age 29, of Scotia, New York, was sentenced on April 12, 2010 by the Honorable Thomas J. McAvoy in Federal District Court in Albany on his guilty plea to count one of an indictment charging him with the possession of child pornography. SLUSARZ was sentenced to 63 months of imprisonment and supervised release for a term of 40 years. He was also ordered to: (1) have no unsupervised contact with minors; and (2) register with the New York State Sex Offender Registry Program. The court also ordered that a computer be forfeited to the United States.

SLUSARZ pled guilty on September 24, 2009. In connection with his plea, SLUSARZ admitted the following in a written plea agreement and during his plea proceeding:

Between about December, 2007 and October 10, 2008, SLUSARZ, while in his residence, used his Dell Inspiron laptop computer and his roommate's Toshiba Satellite laptop computer, to access the Internet wherein he would enter search terms with the intent to find websites that offered images of child pornography. SLUSARZ then visited various websites that allow visitors to view and obtain electronic files/still images that contain child pornography. While visiting the child pornography websites, SLUSARZ would "point and click" his computer mouse on the child pornography images which he sought to view.

On October 10, 2008 agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation executed a federal search warrant at the defendant's residence in Schenectady, New York. Agents seized two computers, a Dell Inspiron laptop computer (belonging to SLUSARZ), and a Toshiba Satellite laptop (belonging to SLUSARZ's roommate) that were suspected of containing child pornography.

Forensic examinations of the computers were subsequently conducted. Approximately 500 still images which depict minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, as those terms and phrases are defined in Title 18, United States Code, Section 2256(2), were recovered from said computers. Said images depict individuals under the age of 18 engaged in, among other things, vaginal sex, oral sex, masturbation, and the lascivious exhibition of the genitals and pubic area. All of the images recovered depict actual, as opposed to computer generated, images of minors engaged in such conduct. A number of these images depict prepubescent minors engaged in such conduct.

This case was investigated by the FBI's Capital Region Cyber Predator Task Force.