BOISE – Brien J. Sanders, 40, of Caldwell, was sentenced
yesterday in United States District Court to 78 months in federal prison for
possession of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. Senior U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge
ordered that Sanders be placed on supervised release for five years following
his prison sentence. Sanders pleaded
guilty on April 3, 2019.
According to court records, in April 2018, an FBI agent
downloaded 27 videos depicting child pornography that were made available by
Sanders’ computer via a peer-to-peer network.
A federal magistrate judge issued a search warrant for Sanders’
residence in Caldwell. Based on this
information, agents with the FBI and the Idaho Internet Crimes Against Children
Task Force (ICAC) served the warrant. A
forensic examination of Sanders’ computers and hard drives revealed approximately
600 videos and 350 images depicting child pornography. Sanders admitted to agents that he possessed
child pornography on his computers and hard drives. He admitted he obtained the child pornography
through a peer-to-peer network.
Judge Lodge also ordered Sanders to forfeit the computers
and hard drives used in the offense, to pay a total of $21,000 to victims
depicted in the images he possessed, and to pay a $5,100 special
assessment. As a result of his conviction,
Sanders will be required to register as a sex offender.
The case was investigated by the FBI with assistance from
the Idaho ICAC Task Force, and was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a
nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to
combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. As part of Project Safe Childhood, the U.S.
Attorney’s Office for the District of Idaho and the Idaho Attorney General’s
Office partner to marshal federal, state, and local resources to locate,
apprehend, and prosecute individuals who sexually exploit children, and to
identify and rescue victims.
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