Kenneth Gianatasio, Child Pornography Offenses, Massachusetts 2023

Worcester Man Sentenced to 12 Years for Child Pornography Offenses

BOSTON – A Worcester man was sentenced on July 7, 2023, in federal court in Worcester for distributing and possessing child pornography.

Kenneth Gianatasio, 44, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Mark G. Mastroianni to 12 years in prison and eight years of supervised release.

Gianatasio pleaded guilty to two counts of possession of child pornography and one count of distribution of child pornography on March 14, 2023.

In August 2019, Gianatasio initiated a conversation with an undercover agent on Kik Messenger. During the conversation, Gianatasio requested to meet the agent in order to engage in sexual activity with the agent’s fictitious underage daughter.

During subsequent interviews with law enforcement, Gianatasio admitted that he used Kik as well as other applications to distribute, receive, and possess images and videos of child pornography as well as engage others in conversations about meeting to perform sexual acts on children.

Gianatasio also stated that he kept his child pornography in secret applications in his devices for five years. A search of Gianatasio’s iPhone and iPad were found to contain videos and images of child pornography, including thousands of thumbnails in applications on his iPhone.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.

For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit https://www.justice.gov/psc.

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