SYRACUSE, NEW YORK – Michael Rushmer, age 48, of Johnson
City, New York, was sentenced today to 300 months in prison for sexually
exploiting a child, and for distributing and possessing 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 previously entered guilty plea, Rushmer
admitted that he created sexually explicit images and videos of a minor
(including secretly recording the victim engaged in sexual acts), and that he
distributed some of those images and videos to people over the internet. Rushmer further admitted that he possessed
hundreds of images and videos depicting child pornography on his electronic
devices, some of which included children under the age of 12.
Senior United States District Judge Thomas J. McAvoy also
imposed a 10-year term of supervised release, which will start after Rushmer is
released from prison, and ordered payment of $9,000 in restitution to
victims. As a result of his conviction,
Rushmer will be required to register as a sex offender upon his release from
prison.
This case was investigated by the FBI, the Johnson City
Police Department, the Broome County Sheriff’s Department, and the Broome
County District Attorney’s Office, and was prosecuted by Assistant U.S.
Attorneys Michael D. Gadarian and Sahar Amandolare.
This case was prosecuted as part of Project Safe
Childhood. 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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