BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK – Corey Baker, age 24, of Clintondale,
New York, pled guilty today to distributing and receiving child pornography.
The announcement was made by United States Attorney Grant C.
Jaquith and James N. Hendricks, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field
Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
As part of his guilty plea, Baker admitted that between June
2017 and August 2018, he traded child pornography with others using a phone and
laptop computer equipped with various Internet-based instant messaging and
file-sharing applications. He also
admitted to using a peer-to-peer file-sharing application on the laptop to
search for and download child pornography.
Baker’s phone and laptop computer contained approximately 671 video
files and 115 image files depicting child pornography.
Sentencing is scheduled for May 27, 2020 before Senior
United States Judge Thomas J. McAvoy.
Baker faces a minimum term of imprisonment of 5 years, and a
maximum term of imprisonment of 20 years.
The Court is also required to impose a term of supervised release of
between 5 years and life, and Baker will be required to register as a sex
offender. A defendant’s sentence is
imposed by a judge based on the particular statute the defendant is charged
with violating, the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other factors
This case was investigated by the FBI, with assistance from
the New York State Police, and is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney
Emmet O’Hanlon.
Launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice, Project
Safe Childhood is led by United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal
Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), and is designed to
marshal 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 https://www.justice.gov/psc.
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