Man Sentenced on Child Pornography Charge

BUFFALO, NY—U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Kenneth Burzynski, 24, of Tonawanda, New York, who was convicted of receipt of child pornography, was sentenced to 72 months in prison and lifetime supervised release by U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael DiGiacomo, who handled the case, stated that the defendant engaged in numerous online chat sessions with an undercover agent. Based upon the conversations, agents obtained a search warrant for Burzynski's residence where they recovered the child pornography on the defendant's computers.

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 conviction 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 H. Robertson.