Project Safe Childhood: Putnam Man Pleads Guilty to Possessing Child Pornography
Crime Blotter
July 10, 2009
Nora R. Dannehy, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that KEVIN DAVIS, 38, of Putnam, pleaded guilty today before United States District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to one count of possession of child pornography.
According to documents filed with the Court and statements made in Court, on April 18, 2008, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents searched DAVIS´ residence pursuant to a court-authorized warrant and seized a desktop computer, a thumb drive and related computer media. When questioned by agents on that date, DAVIS admitted that he had downloaded images of child pornography from the Internet.
Subsequent analysis of the computer´s hard drive and thumb drive revealed the existence of more than 300 images of child pornography, including images of children under the age of 12 engaged in sexual conduct. The images were forensically recovered from the freespace on the computer or thumb drive, which is where the images were stored after DAVIS had viewed and deleted them.
Judge Thompson has scheduled sentencing for September 22, 2009, at which time DAVIS faces a maximum term of imprisonment of 10 years, a fine of up to $250,000, and a minimum period of supervised release of five years.
Following today´s court proceeding, DAVIS was remanded into the custody of the United States Marshals Service.
This investigation was conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Connecticut, Florida and Maryland. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Paul H. McConnell.
Acting United States Attorney Dannehy noted that this prosecution is part of the United States Department of Justice´s Project Safe Childhood Initiative, a nationwide initiative designed to protect children from online exploitation and abuse. Led by the United States Attorneys´ Offices, 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 identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.
According to documents filed with the Court and statements made in Court, on April 18, 2008, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents searched DAVIS´ residence pursuant to a court-authorized warrant and seized a desktop computer, a thumb drive and related computer media. When questioned by agents on that date, DAVIS admitted that he had downloaded images of child pornography from the Internet.
Subsequent analysis of the computer´s hard drive and thumb drive revealed the existence of more than 300 images of child pornography, including images of children under the age of 12 engaged in sexual conduct. The images were forensically recovered from the freespace on the computer or thumb drive, which is where the images were stored after DAVIS had viewed and deleted them.
Judge Thompson has scheduled sentencing for September 22, 2009, at which time DAVIS faces a maximum term of imprisonment of 10 years, a fine of up to $250,000, and a minimum period of supervised release of five years.
Following today´s court proceeding, DAVIS was remanded into the custody of the United States Marshals Service.
This investigation was conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Connecticut, Florida and Maryland. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Paul H. McConnell.
Acting United States Attorney Dannehy noted that this prosecution is part of the United States Department of Justice´s Project Safe Childhood Initiative, a nationwide initiative designed to protect children from online exploitation and abuse. Led by the United States Attorneys´ Offices, 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 identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.
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