PORTLAND, Ore. – Kilunnun Adyden Chivoski, 41, will spend the next 25 years in federal prison following his conviction for a horrific cross-country scheme to sexually abuse two children. U.S. District Court Judge Marco A. Hernández handed down the sentence Thursday, March 30, 2017, along with a lifetime of supervised release and mandatory sex offender registration. Chivoski was found guilty in September 2016 of one count of transporting a minor across state lines with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity – a charge carrying a substantial penalty, though prosecutors sought even more.
The case, painstakingly built over years, revealed a pattern of repeated and systematic abuse. Evidence presented at the ten-day trial detailed how Chivoski isolated and indoctrinated his young victims over a year-long period, laying the groundwork for his predatory behavior. The crimes only came to light when the victims, years later, bravely came forward to disclose the abuse they suffered. Investigators faced significant hurdles, tracing Chivoski’s nomadic lifestyle and piecing together his movements across the country.
Prosecutors successfully demonstrated that Chivoski’s cross-country road trip, culminating in Oregon in August 2010, wasn’t a journey of leisure, but a calculated effort to continue his abuse. One of the primary motivations for the trip, they argued, was to facilitate further exploitation of one of the minors. They had originally requested a 30-year sentence, citing the “shockingly heinous” nature of Chivoski’s actions and his deliberate attempt to manipulate his pre-teen victims into silence. Chivoski, meanwhile, argued for the mandatory minimum of ten years.
“This sentence will protect children in Oregon and elsewhere from a sexual predator whose egregious crimes will have a lifelong impact on his victims,” declared Billy J. Williams, United States Attorney for the District of Oregon. Williams also lauded the collaborative efforts of federal, state, and local law enforcement, and, crucially, the “amazing bravery” of the victims in coming forward. “Thanks to their courage, our community is safer and a dangerous criminal is behind bars.”
Judge Hernández, while acknowledging potential mitigating factors relating to Chivoski’s mental state, emphasized the severity of the crimes. “It is always troubling to the court when you think about parents abusing their own children and while Mr. Chivoski’s own paranoia and mental challenges contributed to his actions, it doesn’t make his children any less of victims. He needs to be held responsible for this abuse,” the judge stated during sentencing.
The investigation was led by the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office and the Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), with Assistant U.S. Attorneys Jane Shoemaker and Ravi Sinha handling the prosecution. This case was pursued under Project Safe Childhood, a national initiative dedicated to combating child sexual exploitation and abuse. Project Safe Childhood brings together resources from across law enforcement to identify, apprehend, and prosecute offenders, and to rescue victims. More information can be found at www.projectsafechildhood.gov.
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Key Facts
- State: Oregon
- Agency: DOJ USAO
- Category: Sex Crimes
- Source: Official Source ↗
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