Frank Alan Klukosky, Child Pornography Production, Maryland 2022

A Laurel man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for producing child pornography after secretly recording a 13-year-old girl in a bathroom.

Frank Alan Klukosky, age 43, of Laurel, Maryland, was sentenced to 20 years in prison, followed by lifetime supervised release, for producing child pornography. Chief Judge Deborah K. Chasanow also ordered that upon his release from prison Klukosky must register as a sex offender in the place where he resides, where he is an employee, and where he is a student, under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).

The sentence was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein; Special Agent in Charge Stephen E. Vogt of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; Chief Richard McLaughlin of the Laurel Police Department; Howard County Police Chief William McMahon; and Stephen Niemczak Special Agent in Charge of the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General (HHS-OIG), Office of Investigations, Computer Forensics and Investigative Research Branch.

According to Klukosky's plea agreement, in June 2012, a federal probation officer discovered images and videos of child pornography on the cell phone of a registered sex offender on federal probation. Further investigation revealed that on June 24, 2012 Klukosky drove to the registered sex offender's home in Laurel with an SD card that contained at least 120 images and six videos of child pornography.

On October 23, 2012 the FBI executed a search warrant at Klukosky's home and seized video cameras, key fob cameras, computers, an external hard drive and other computer accessories. The external hard drive contained approximately 2,000 images and 16 videos of child pornography, including 11 videos depicting a 13-year-old girl in a bathroom.

The case was investigated by the FBI-led Maryland Child Exploitation Task Force (MCETF), created in 2010 to combat child prostitution, with members from 10 state and federal law enforcement agencies. The Task Force coordinates with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Maryland State Police Child Recovery Unit to identify missing children being advertised online for prostitution.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/laurel-man-sentenced-20-years-prison-producing-child-pornography-0