Child Porn Kingpin Sentenced to 22 Years in Prison
Edmund Ansbro, a registered sex offender, was sentenced to a term of 264 months in prison and lifetime supervised release for transporting child pornography in interstate commerce. The proceeding was held before Senior United States District Judge Denis R. Hurley at the United States Courthouse in Central Islip, New York.
The sentence was announced by Loretta E. Lynch, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, George Venizelos, Assistant Director-in-Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), New York Field Office, and Edward Webber, Commissioner of the Suffolk County Police Department (SCPD).
An undercover investigation by a detective with the SCPD Computer Crimes Unit and a special agent with the FBI Sexual Exploitation of Children Unit led to Ansbro’s arrest in Brooklyn on June 10, 2010. According to a complaint filed in federal court, Ansbro admitted to trading child pornography for the past six years and collecting approximately 250 gigabytes of child pornography.
New York State records show that Ansbro was convicted on April 4, 2000, in Kings County Supreme Court, of two counts of Sexual Abuse in the First Degree: Sexual Conduct with an Individual Less Than 11 Years Old. Ansbro was sentenced to six months jail and five years’ probation. Following the conviction, Ansbro was required to register as a sex offender with New York State authorities.
‘This sentence stands as a strong warning to prior sex offenders that we will prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law,’ stated United States Attorney Lynch. ‘We will not accept the continuing victimization of our children.’ Ms. Lynch expressed her grateful appreciation to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Suffolk County Police Department for their assistance in this case.
The government’s case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Allen Bode. Ansbro, 43, of Brooklyn, New York, will likely spend the rest of his life behind bars after this conviction, serving as a stark reminder of the consequences of engaging in such heinous crimes.
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Key Facts
- State: New York
- Category: Sex Crimes
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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