Frank sentenced to 10 years for posession of child pornography

[Jason]

Department of Justice
Office of Public Affairs
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, March 25, 2016
Repeat Offender Sentenced to 121 Months for Possession of Child
Pornography

A Minnesota man was sentenced today to 121 months in prison for
possession of child pornography, announced Assistant Attorney General
Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and
U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger of the District of Minnesota.

On Dec. 8, 2015, Frank Russell McCoy, 72, was found guilty of
possession of child pornography after a two-day trial. U.S. District
Judge Patrick J. Schiltz of the District of Minnesota sentenced McCoy
today and also ordered him to serve a 10 year term of supervised
release.

According to the evidence presented at sentencing, for years, McCoy
has written and distributed short stories describing extreme sexual
abuse and other acts of violence perpetrated against very young
children. In 2013, he was convicted in the Middle District of Georgia
of one count of transportation of obscene matters after sending one
such story via the Internet to an Immigration and Customs
Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI) undercover
agent. In Dec. 2013, while on bond pending appeal of that conviction,
McCoy amassed a large numbers of computers and related equipment in
his home in Minnesota that, a search requested by his U.S. Probation
Officer revealed, contained dozens of videos of child exploitation.
Evidence at trial further demonstrated that though McCoy had installed
forensic wiping software on his computers in order to destroy any
evidence of child exploitation images, he had transferred the majority
of those files onto a portable video player device just before the
seizure.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Katharine T. Buzicky of the District of
Minnesota and former Trial Attorney Jeffrey Zeeman of the Criminal
Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS) prosecuted
the case. ICE-HSI and CEOS’s High Technology Investigative Unit
investigated 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. Led by
U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and CEOS, 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.




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