ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A Fairfax man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in downloading and soliciting child pornography, officials announced today.
Christopher Robert Sueiro, 40, used a peer-to-peer network to download images and videos depicting children as young as four years old being sexually abused, according to court documents and evidence presented at trial. He was also a member of a Darknet hidden service website dedicated to trafficking in child pornography, where he made posts promoting and soliciting CSAM images and videos and attempted to receive CSAM from other users of the website.
Sueiro’s electronic devices included documents describing graphic sexual abuse of children and a guide to how to find child pornography online. He downloaded CSAM repeatedly over the course of at least four years, amassing thousands of images and videos.
“For years, this defendant used the internet, including the dark web, to solicit, obtain, and promote images and videos depicting the sexual abuse of children,” said Raj Parekh, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. “The trafficking of child pornography is egregious and repugnant behavior, and as today’s sentence demonstrates, will be met with serious consequences in EDVA. We are grateful to everyone who worked tirelessly on this case to secure a measure of justice on behalf of society’s most vulnerable victims.”
The case was investigated by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the City of Fairfax Police Department, with significant assistance from the High Technology Investigative Unit (HTIU) of the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS). Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Nathaniel Smith III and CEOS Trial Attorney James E. Burke IV prosecuted the case.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and CEOS, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims.
“Each time someone downloads child pornography, the child is victimized all over again,” said Raymond Villanueva, Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Washington, D.C. “Predators cannot hide behind the cloak of the internet; our special agents and law enforcement partners work tirelessly to identify them and ensure they are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
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Key Facts
- State: Virginia
- Category: Sex Crimes|Cybercrime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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