NEW ORLEANS – U.S. Attorney
Peter G. Strasser announced that JASON BOYET, age 41, a resident of
Ponchatoula, Louisiana, was charged on May 13, 2020 in a one-count Bill of
Information with distribution of images depicting the sexual exploitation of
children, including children as young as three (3) years old, in violation of
18 U.S.C. ' 2252(a)(2).
If convicted, BOYET faces a mandatory minimum term of
imprisonment of five (5) years and a maximum term of imprisonment of twenty
(20) years, followed by up to a lifetime of supervised release, and a $250,000
fine. He can also be required to
register as a sex offender.
U. S. Attorney Strasser reiterated that a Bill of
Information is merely a charge and that the guilt of the defendant must be
proven beyond a reasonable doubt.
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.
U.S. Attorney Strasser praised the work of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation in investigating this matter with the assistance of the
Louisiana State Police. Assistant United States Attorney Jordan Ginsberg is in
charge of the prosecution.
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