Wilkes-Barre Man Indicted for Interstate Enticement of a Minor and Receiving Child Pornography

Wilkes-Barre Man Indicted for Interstate Enticement of a Minor and Receiving Child Pornography


June 18, 2010 - Dennis C. Pfannenschmidt, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced that a Wilkes-Barre man was indicted on June 9, 2010, by a federal grand jury in Scranton for allegedly enticing a minor to travel interstate to engage in illegal sexual acts and for receiving child pornography.

Pfannenschmidt stated that Corey Aiken, age 39, is charged with committing the offenses during 2007 through August 2009.

The charges against Aiken stem from an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Lackawanna County Detectives, the Luzerne County District Attorney’s Office, and the Sheriff’s Office in Berkeley County, South Carolina.

Aiken faces a mandatory minimum 10-year prison sentence and a possible maximum sentence of life in prison if he is convicted of the charges.

Pfannenschmidt noted that 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.

Assistant United States Attorney Francis P. Sempa is prosecuting the case.

An Indictment or Information is not evidence of guilt but simply a description of the charge made by the Grand Jury and/or United States Attorney against a defendant. A charged Defendant is presumed innocent until a jury returns a unanimous finding that the United States has proven the defendant’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt or until the defendant has pled guilty to the charges.

June 18, 2010 - Dennis C. Pfannenschmidt, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced that a Wilkes-Barre man was indicted on June 9, 2010, by a federal grand jury in Scranton for allegedly enticing a minor to travel interstate to engage in illegal sexual acts and for receiving child pornography.

Pfannenschmidt stated that Corey Aiken, age 39, is charged with committing the offenses during 2007 through August 2009.

The charges against Aiken stem from an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Lackawanna County Detectives, the Luzerne County District Attorney’s Office, and the Sheriff’s Office in Berkeley County, South Carolina.

Aiken faces a mandatory minimum 10-year prison sentence and a possible maximum sentence of life in prison if he is convicted of the charges.

Pfannenschmidt noted that 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.

Assistant United States Attorney Francis P. Sempa is prosecuting the case.

An Indictment or Information is not evidence of guilt but simply a description of the charge made by the Grand Jury and/or United States Attorney against a defendant. A charged Defendant is presumed innocent until a jury returns a unanimous finding that the United States has proven the defendant’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt or until the defendant has pled guilty to the charges.