A Purcellville, Virginia man who was a member of a website
dedicated to the advertising and sharing of child pornography on an online
anonymous network pleaded guilty today to receipt of child pornography.
Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the
Justice Department’s Criminal Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Tracy
Doherty-McCormick of the Eastern District of Virginia made the announcement.
Nikolai Bosyk, 40, was charged on Oct. 17, 2017, and pleaded
guilty before U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema of the Eastern District of
Virginia. Sentencing is scheduled for
May 4.
According to admissions made in conjunction with the guilty
plea, Bosyk was a member of an online bulletin board that operated on an
anonymous online network and was dedicated to the sharing of child pornography. He downloaded child pornography, from that
website and other places on the Internet.
A forensic review of his laptop
discovered thousands of images and videos of child pornography.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security
Investigations investigated the case, with assistance from the High Technology
Investigative Unit of the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity
Section (CEOS), and the Northern Virginia-Washington, D.C. Internet Crimes
Against Children Task Force.
CEOS Trial Attorney Lauren E. Britsch and Assistant U.S.
Attorney Nathaniel Smith III of the Eastern District of Virginia prosecuted the
case.
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 U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and 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.justice.gov/psc.
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