Boxboro Man Sentenced for Receipt and Possession of Child Pornography Reports U.S. Attorney

BOSTON, Feb. 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A Boxboro man was sentenced today to 78 months in federal prison for distributing, receiving and possessing child pornography.

United States Attorney Michael J. Sullivan and Warren T. Bamford, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in New England, announced today that ROBERT MITTEL-CAREY, age 25, of Boxboro, Massachusetts, pled guilty to an 8-count Indictment charging him with distribution, receipt and possession of visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. At a prior plea hearing, MITTEL-CAREY admitted that in 2004 he chatted on-line with a person whom he believed to be 14 year old girl. During this conversation, MITTEL-CAREY told the girl that he wanted to have sex with her, and he sent her images of child pornography. In subsequent on-line conversations, MITTEL-CAREY sent additional images of child pornography to the girl, who turned out to be a law enforcement officer, and also engaged in explicit conversations with her about having sex together.

A search warrant executed by the FBI on the residence that MITTEL-CAREY and his girlfriend then shared in Boxboro in January of 2005 revealed numerous images of child pornography on MITTEL-CAREY'S computer. MITTEL-CAREY was indicted on 4 counts of distributing images of child pornography, three counts of receiving images of child pornography, and one count of possessing images of child pornography. MITTEL-CAREY was placed at his grandparent's home in Connecticut on electronic monitoring during the pendency of the federal case. He pled guilty on December 12, 2007 and was sentenced today.

Following his 78 months in federal prison, MITTEL-CAREY will be placed on supervised release for a period of fifteen years, during which time he will not be allowed to have unsupervised contact with any minors, or have access to a computer other than for work purposes. MITTEL-CAREY must register as a sex offender in Massachusetts, as well as in any state in which he resides, is employed, or attends school.

The case was investigated by the Lowell Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Dana Gershengorn in Sullivan's Major Crimes Unit.

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