ROCHESTER, NY—U.S. Attorney William J.
Hochul, Jr. announced today that Bryan Griswold, 22, of Corning, New York, who
was convicted of possession of child pornography, was sentenced to 84 months in
prison and 25 years of supervised release by U.S. District Judge David G.
Larimer.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Tiffany H. Lee,
who handled the case, stated that in June 2009, an investigator from the New
York State Police Computer Crimes Unit was conducting an investigation
involving peer-to-peer file sharing of images of children being sexually
exploited and abused. The investigation led law enforcement to the defendant’s
residence in Corning in August 2009. Griswold admitted that he downloaded child
pornography from the Internet using the Limewire peer-to-peer file sharing
program. Griswold possessed more than 600 images of child pornography. The
defendant also admitted that he possessed sexually explicit images he took of
two female relatives who were approximately 2 years old. Griswold further
admitted that he possessed sexually explicit pictures he took of three young
girls he supervised while working as a child care provider at the YMCA in
Corning. The victims ranged in age from 2 and 4 years old.
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 sentence was the culmination of an
investigation on the part of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, under the
direction of Christopher M. Piehota, Special Agent in Charge; the New York
State Police Computer Crimes Unit, under the direction of Captain Frank Pace;
and the Steuben County District Attorney’s Office.
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