Michael Correia, Receiving Child Pornography, Nebraska 2023

A Massachusetts man has been sentenced in federal court in Omaha for receiving child pornography.

Michael Correia, 30, of New Bedford, Massachusetts, was sentenced to 66 months of imprisonment by Chief Judge Laurie Smith Camp.

There is no parole in the federal system.

After his release from prison, Correia will serve a five-year term of supervised release and will be required to register as a sex offender.

According to court documents, on August 10 and August 19, 2016, agents with the FBI Cyber Crimes Task Force noticed an IP address sharing child pornography associated with a building in which Correia was a tenant.

They observed a file depicting an 8-year-old girl being sexually assaulted.

A federal search warrant was served on Correia’s residence on February 23, 2017.

A single video of child pornography was found on a device in the apartment.

Other forensics determined that the device had been used to view other images and videos of child pornography.

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 U.S. Attorney’s Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section.

Led by United States Attorney’s Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, 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.

For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.

This case was investigated by the Omaha FBI’s Cyber Crime Task Force (CCTF).

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