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D.C. Man Sentenced for Accessing Child Pornography

Brian Kampel, a 44-year-old Washington, D.C. resident, has been sentenced to 33 months in prison for accessing child pornography. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Judge Dabney L. Friedrich in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Kampel pleaded guilty earlier this month to accessing and downloading child pornography from a password-protected, fee-based website. The website advertised over 600,000 images and 400 hours of video featuring the sexual abuse of children.

According to the government’s evidence, Kampel was identified as part of a national investigation into the website. A search of his residence in September 2019 uncovered a laptop computer with over 1,000 images depicting the sexual abuse of children as young as infants and toddlers.

The forensic evidence in the case determined that Kampel had been accessing, downloading, and possessing child sexual abuse material for over eight years. He will be required to register as a sex offender for 15 years following his release from prison.

In addition to his prison sentence, Kampel will be placed on supervised release for the rest of his life. He was also ordered to pay $39,000 in restitution to his victims.

The case was brought as part of the Department of Justice’s Project Safe Childhood initiative, a nationwide effort to protect children from online exploitation and abuse. The initiative is led by the U.S. Attorney’s Offices, which work with federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet.

Acting U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips and Special Agent in Charge Raymond Villanueva commended the work of those who investigated the case, including Assistant U.S. Attorney Amy E. Larson, who prosecuted the case.