ATLANTA – Justin Levi Marino has been sentenced for the possession and distribution of kid pornography and for violating the situations of his supervised launch for a previous youngster exploitation federal conviction.
“Little one pornography is an particularly heinous crime involving those that exploit and abuse kids and infants to provide these disturbing and horrific photographs, and the people who create the demand for this vile materials by possessing and distributing it,” mentioned U.S. Lawyer Ryan Ok. Buchanan. “The collaborative efforts of the FBI, U.S. Probation Workplace, and the U.S. Marshals Service made it potential to cease this predator from persevering with to victimize extra kids and their households.”
“Every time Marino considered or distributed the unconscionable photographs of harmless younger kids, they had been re-victimized,” mentioned Keri Farley, Particular Agent in Cost of FBI Atlanta. “The very fact he’s a repeat intercourse offender solely underscores why we try daily to guard our youngsters and can proceed to make use of each regulation enforcement useful resource obtainable to establish and prosecute people who exploit them in such a way.”
“Because of the laborious work of a number of elements of the Division of Justice, Justin Levi Marino is now not in a position to menace society and can by no means once more victimize kids together with his deviant conduct. Little one predators are a scourge on our group, and the U.S. Marshals Companies considers it amongst our highest priorities to take away these offenders from our communities,” mentioned Thomas E. Brown, U.S. Marshal for the Northern District of Georgia.
In line with U.S. Lawyer Buchanan, the fees and different info offered in court docket: In 2007, the U.S. District Courtroom for the Northern District of Georgia sentenced Justin Levi Marino to 12 years and 6 months for utilizing a pc to entice a minor to have interaction in sexual exercise.
Slightly multiple yr after finishing this sentence, in June 2020, through the preliminary lockdown phases of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, a involved citizen contacted the Atlanta Police Division on the suspicion {that a} 16-year-old youngster, who had been reported lacking in one other state, was dwelling with Marino in his residence within the Atlanta space. The U.S. Probation Workplace for the Northern District of Georgia was notified and instantly obtained an arrest warrant based mostly on Marino’s suspected violation of his supervised launch situation prohibiting contact with a toddler underneath the age of 18 years previous. The U.S. Probation Workplace and the U.S. Marshals Service for the Northern District of Georgia recovered the minor and arrested Marino at his residence.
Following Marino’s arrest, the FBI recovered a whole bunch of photographs of kid pornography and chats on varied social media functions from his cellular phone. Investigators additionally established that Marino distributed photographs of kid pornography to different customers.
Justin Levi Marino, 45, of Poland, Ohio, was sentenced to 22 years in jail to be adopted by a lifetime time period of supervised launch. Marino pleaded responsible to the fees of possession and distribution of kid pornography on August 26, 2022.
This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the U.S. Marshals Service.
Assistant U.S. Lawyer Sekret T. Sneed prosecuted the case.
This case is being introduced as a part of Undertaking Protected Childhood. In February 2006, the Lawyer Common launched Undertaking Protected Childhood, a nationwide initiative designed to guard kids from on-line exploitation and abuse. Led by america Lawyer’s Places of work across the nation, Undertaking Protected Childhood marshals federal, state and native sources to apprehend and prosecute people who exploit kids. For extra details about Undertaking Protected Childhood, please go to www.projectsafechildhood.gov.
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