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Jamesville Man Sentenced for Child Pornography Distribution

Syracuse, NY – Roy Bovee, 34, of Jamesville, has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for distributing, transporting, and possessing child pornography, announced Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon.

Bovee, a registered sex offender, used the Kik Messenger application on his cellular telephone to distribute child pornography to other users in July 2020. A search of his phone revealed he possessed 152 images and 113 video files depicting minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, including depictions of the rape and sodomy of prepubescent children.

As part of his guilty plea, Bovee admitted to uploading over 100 images and videos to his online cloud storage account. The images and videos included depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.

Bovee’s conviction comes on the heels of a 2010 conviction in the military for distribution of child pornography, for which he was sentenced to 20 months imprisonment and given a bad conduct discharge.

United States District Judge David N. Hurd also imposed a 20-year term of supervised release, which will start after Bovee is released from prison, and ordered him to pay a $300 special assessment and $9,000 in restitution to the victims of his crimes.

Bovee was also sentenced to a concurrent term of 9 months imprisonment for violating the conditions of his federal supervised release for a 2014 conviction for failing to register as a sex offender.

The case was investigated by the FBI Syracuse Mid-State Child Exploitation Task Force, comprised of FBI Special Agents and Investigators of the New York State Police, Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI), and Computer Crimes Unit (CCU) with assistance from the United States Probation Office.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Geoffrey J. L. Brown as a part of Project Safe Childhood, a program launched in May 2006 by the federal government to combat child exploitation. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit https://www.justice.gov/psc.