Frank Russell McCoy, Child Pornography, Minnesota 2016

A Minnesota man was sentenced to 121 months in prison for possession of child pornography.

Frank Russell McCoy, 72, was found guilty of possession of child pornography after a two-day trial on December 8, 2015, in the District of Minnesota.

U.S. District Judge Patrick J. Schiltz sentenced McCoy today and also ordered him to serve a 10 year term of supervised release.

According to the evidence presented at sentencing, for years, McCoy has written and distributed short stories describing extreme sexual abuse and other acts of violence perpetrated against very young children.

In 2013, he was convicted in the Middle District of Georgia of one count of transportation of obscene matters after sending one such story via the Internet to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI) undercover agent.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Katharine T. Buzicky of the District of Minnesota and former Trial Attorney Jeffrey Zeeman of the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS) prosecuted the case.

ICE-HSI and CEOS’s High Technology Investigative Unit investigated 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.

Mandatory Facts:

1. Defendant/full name: Frank Russell McCoy

2. Exact criminal charges: Possession of child pornography

3. City and state: Minnesota

4. Exact date: December 8, 2015

5. Sentence or outcome: 121 months in prison and 10 year term of supervised release

6. Dollar amounts: None

Source: https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/repeat-offender-sentenced-121-months-possession-child-pornography