Nikolai Bosyk, Receiving Child Pornography, Virginia 2017

A Purcellville, Virginia man who was a member of a website dedicated to the advertising and sharing of child pornography on an online anonymous network has been convicted of receiving child pornography. Nikolai Bosyk, 40, was charged on October 17, 2017, and pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema of the Eastern District of Virginia.

According to admissions made in conjunction with the guilty plea, Bosyk was a member of an online bulletin board that operated on an anonymous online network and was dedicated to the sharing of child pornography. He downloaded child pornography, from that website and other places on the Internet. A forensic review of his laptop discovered thousands of images and videos of child pornography.

Bosyk will be sentenced on May 4. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations investigated the case, with assistance from the High Technology Investigative Unit of the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), and the Northern Virginia-Washington, D.C. Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.

CEOS Trial Attorney Lauren E. Britsch and Assistant U.S. Attorney Nathaniel Smith III of the Eastern District of Virginia prosecuted 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 by the Department of Justice.

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.justice.gov/psc.

Nikolai Bosyk, a 40-year-old man from Purcellville, Virginia, was convicted of receiving child pornography on an online anonymous network. He was charged on October 17, 2017, and pleaded guilty before Judge Leonie M. Brinkema of the Eastern District of Virginia. Bosyk was a member of an online bulletin board dedicated to sharing child pornography and downloaded thousands of images and videos from the website and other places on the Internet.

The case was investigated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations, with assistance from the High Technology Investigative Unit of the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, and the Northern Virginia-Washington, D.C. Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. CEOS Trial Attorney Lauren E. Britsch and Assistant U.S. Attorney Nathaniel Smith III prosecuted the case.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/virginia-man-convicted-receiving-child-pornography-tor-network-forum-child-predators