The United States Attorney’s Office for
the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 34-year-old Moscow man was
sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Richard P. Conaboy to 11
years in federal prison for using the Internet and a cell phone to attempt to
entice a minor to engage in illegal sexual conduct.
According to United States Attorney
Peter J. Smith, John Swenski previously admitted that he attempted to persuade
and entice a minor to meet him in Scranton for illicit sexual purposes. Federal
agents arrested Swenski in January 2010 when he arrived at a location for the
purpose of meeting with the minor child.
Swenski was indicted by a federal grand
jury in February 2010 following an investigation by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation and Scranton Police.
Judge Conaboy also ordered Swenski to
serve a life term of supervised release following his prison sentence, to pay
restitution in the amount of $4,060, and pay a special assessment of $100.
Swenski must also undergo sex offender treatment and comply with sex offender
registration requirements.
The case was brought as part of Project
Safe Childhood, a U.S. Department of Justice nationwide initiative to combat
child sexual exploitation and abuse. 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 case was prosecuted by Assistant
U.S. Attorney Francis P. Sempa.
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