JACKSONVILLE MAN SENTENCED TO MORE THAN 17.5 YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON FOR TRANSPORTATION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY

Jacksonville, FL —U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan today sentenced Kevin Patrick Boody, age 42, a resident of Jacksonville, to a term of 212 months' imprisonment and a life term of supervised release for transportation of child pornography. Boody was also ordered by the Court to register under federal and state law as a sex offender. Boody pled guilty on April 8, 2008, and has been in federal custody during the prosecution of this case.

According to court documents, Boody was convicted of sexual abuse of a minor in Maine in 2000. In 2007, Boody was contacted by agents with the FBI and the Florida Attorney General's Office, and Boody admitted that he had sent images of child pornography to other individuals, including an undercover FBI agent, over the Internet. Boody also stated that he had been downloading child pornography from the Internet onto his computer and trading child pornography online since the early 1990s. A subsequent search and forensic analysis of his computers and other electronic storage media conducted by the FBI revealed that Boody had downloaded and collected over 9,000 images and approximately 200 videos depicting child pornography.

The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Child Predator CyberCrime Unit of the State of Florida Attorney General’s Office. Assistant United States Attorney D. Rodney Brown handled the prosecution of this case.

This case is part of Project Safe Childhood. In February 2006, the Attorney General of the United States created Project Safe Childhood, a national initiative designed to protect children from online exploitation and abuse. Led by the United States Attorney's Offices, 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 identify and rescue victims. For more information on Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.

Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum's Child Predator CyberCrime Unit is a member of the FBI Cyber Taskforce in Jacksonville and the North Florida Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force, a federally funded program working nationwide to educate and support law enforcement to stop these crimes.