ANCHORAGE – An Eagle River man was sentenced to a high-end guideline sentence of 78 months imprisonment adopted by lifetime supervised launch by Choose Timothy M. Burgess on Tuesday, March 28. John Daniel Brooks had beforehand pleaded responsible to 1 rely of Distribution and Receipt of Little one Pornography.
In September of 2021, the State of Alaska contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Anchorage to report {that a} state worker was suspected of possessing photographs depicting youngster sexual exploitation. Two days later, the FBI carried out a search warrant at Brooks’ residence, the place he labored for the state of Alaska remotely as an analyst programmer.
The FBI found that Brooks had put in an inside arduous drive in his State of Alaska pc that was discovered to include over 1.2 million photographs of suspected youngster exploitation. These photographs included depictions of infants and toddlers being tortured and sexually assaulted by adults. All instructed, Brooks’ assortment of kid exploitation supplies was one of many largest encountered up to now by the FBI in Alaska.
“Massive scale customers of kid sexual abuse supplies like Mr. Brooks instantly contribute to the exploitation of youngsters worldwide,” mentioned U.S. Lawyer S. Lane Tucker, District of Alaska. “The sentence imposed by the courtroom displays the seriousness of such a abhorrent habits and we are going to proceed to prosecute these circumstances to the fullest extent of the regulation. Due to the arduous work of the FBI and APD, in coordination with our State companions, Mr. Brooks has been dropped at justice.”
“Our investigation revealed Mr. Brooks acquired and possessed one of many largest collections of kid sexual abuse supplies present in Alaska,” mentioned Particular Agent in Cost Antony Jung of the FBI Anchorage Subject Workplace. “Possession of this materials is just not a victimless crime, and the FBI will use each authorized authority we’ve got to root out predators to guard kids from these unconscionable offenses.”
The USA Lawyer’s Workplace thanks the State of Alaska. The FBI Anchorage Subject Workplace and the Anchorage Police Division investigated this case as a part of the FBI’s Crimes In opposition to Kids and Human Trafficking Activity Pressure.
This case was introduced as a part of Challenge Secure Childhood, a nationwide initiative to fight the rising epidemic of kid exploitation and abuse launched in Might 2006 by the Division of Justice. Led by U.S. Lawyer’s Workplaces nationwide and the Felony Division’s Little one Exploitation and Obscenity Part, Challenge Secure Childhood marshals federal, state and native sources to higher find, apprehend and prosecute people who exploit kids by way of the Web, in addition to to determine and rescue victims. For extra details about Challenge Secure Childhood, please go to www.projectsafechildhood.gov.
Assistant U.S. Lawyer Adam Alexander is prosecuting the case.