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St. Augustine Sex Offender Gets 15 Years
Jacksonville, Florida – A St. Augustine man has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for transporting child pornography from Florida to Canada.
Charles Lee Gorish, 67, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard. He was also ordered to serve a 10-year term of supervision, following his incarceration, and to register as a sex offender.
Gorish pleaded guilty on October 23, 2013, and has been in custody since his arrest on September 7, 2012.
According to court documents, Gorish used a fake name to send a package, via FedEx from St. Augustine, to an individual in Ontario, Canada.
The package was intercepted by Canadian law enforcement officers and contained over 600 images and videos depicting child pornography, as well as thousands of images of child erotica.
Gorish was a registered sex offender, having been convicted in Hillsborough County, Florida on February 24, 1992, of three counts of lewd and lascivious conduct on a minor child.
The case was investigated by the Canadian Border Services Agency, Ottawa Police Services, the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations.
It was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney D. Rodney Brown.
Gorish admitted to downloading the files depicting the sexually explicit images of young boys on the SD cards from the Internet, over a period of years.
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Key Facts
- State: Florida
- Category: Sex Crimes
- Source: DOJ Press Release ↗
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