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Date: 08-11-2021
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Case Number: 5:21-cr-00098-DNH
Judge: David N. Hurd
Court: United States District Court for the Northern District of New York (Onondaga County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: United States Attorney’s Office
Defendant's Attorney:
Description: Syracuse, New York criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with distribution, transportation and possession of child pornography.
Roy Bovee, age 34, of Jamesville, New York, was with distribution, transportation and possession of child pornography
Bovee admitted that in July 2020 he used the Kik Messenger application on his cellular telephone to distribute child pornography to other other Kik users. A search of the defendant’s cellular telephone revealed that he possessed 152 images and 113 video files depicting minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. The images and videos included depictions of the rape and sodomy of prepubescent children. In addition, Bovee admitted to uploading over 100 images and videos depicting minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct to his on-line cloud storage account.
Bovee is a registered sex offender who while in the military was convicted in 2010 of Distribution of Child Pornography, sentenced to 20 months imprisonment, and given a bad conduct discharge.
At the time of his offense Bovee was on federal supervised release for a 2014 conviction for failing to register as a sex offender, for which he served a 54-month sentence. Today he also received a concurrent term of 9 months imprisonment for violating the conditions of that release.
Bovee’s 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.
18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)( l) Transportation of Chi Id Pornography with Forfeiture Allegation
(1)
18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(2)(A) Distribution of Child Pornography
(2)
18 U.S.C. §§ 2252A(a)(5)(B) and (b)(2) Possession of Child Pornography
(3)
Outcome: Defendant was sentenced to 15 years in prison, followed by 20-year term of supervised release, which will start after Bovee is released from prison, and was ordered to pay a $300 special assessment and $9,000 in restitution to the victims of his crimes.
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