ROCHESTER, NY—U.S. Attorney William J.
Hochul, Jr. announced today that Don MacIntyre, 33, of Rochester, New York, who
was convicted of possession child pornography, was sentenced to 36 months in
prison and 15 years’ supervised release by U.S. District Judge David G.
Larimer.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Marisa J.
Miller, who handled the case, stated that during the execution of a search
warrant by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Cyber Task Force at a
residence MacIntyre shared with co-defendant Robert Vogler, law enforcement
officers found devices containing child pornography. Macintyre admitted to
downloading images and videos of child pornography using a peer-to-peer file
sharing program.
Robert Vogler was also convicted of
possession of child pornography and will be sentenced on August 20, 2012 by
Judge Larimer.
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 sentencing is 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 Christopher M.
Piehota.
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