Rotterdam Man Sentenced for Child Pornography

Andrew T. Baxter, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York, and John F. Pikus, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Albany Division, announced today that DAVID DIMEO, age 35, of Rotterdam, New York, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Thomas J. McAvoy in Federal Court in Albany on his guilty plea to a one count Information charging him with the distribution of child pornography. DIMEO was sentenced to 87 months and ordered to serve a 15 year term of supervised release. He also was ordered to (1) have no unsupervised contact with minors; (2) participate in a sex offender program; and (3) register with the New York State Sex Offender Registry Program.

DIMEO pled guilty on December 27, 2007. In connection with his plea, he admitted the following in a written plea agreement and during his plea proceeding:

At all times relevant herein, DAVID DIMEO resided in Hudson Falls, New York, which is located in the Northern District of New York. On December 15, 2005, an undercover agent signed onto America Online (AOL) to investigate individuals involved in the transmission and/or receipt of child pornography. While signed into an AOL chat room..., the undercover agent sent several messages to the room indicating that he had videos to trade. Thereafter, this undercover received Instant Messages from DIMEO in which he indicated that he was interested in trading images of children engaged in sexual activity. DIMEO also advised the undercover agent that he was looking for images of children ages "7up." Thereafter, on December 15, 2005, the undercover agent received the following computer images from DIMEO:

1. A computer video...which depicts a prepubescent female engaging in sexually explicit conduct;
2. A still image file which depicts a prepubescent female performing oral sex on an adult male;
3. A still image which depicts three nude children, two female and one male, engaged in sexually explicit conduct;
4. A computer video file...which depicts an adult male engaging in sexually explicit conduct with a young female child;
5. A still image which depicts a prepubescent female posing, nude, in a sexually explicit manner; and
6. A still image which depicts a prepubescent female posing, nude, in a sexually explicit manner.

On February 2, 2006, a federal search warrant was executed at DIMEO’S residence...and a computer used by him was recovered. A forensic examination of this computer was subsequently conducted. Numerous still images and approximately 10 computer videos depicting minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct...were recovered from said computer. Said images depict individuals under the age of 18 (children between the ages of 6 months and 17 years of age) engaged in, among other things, vaginal intercourse, oral sex, anal sex, masturbation and the lascivious exhibition of the genitals and pubic area. Many of these images depict prepubescent minors engaged in such conduct. DIMEO obtained such images from, among other places, individuals located outside the State of New York.

On or about February 2, 2006, DIMEO was interviewed by law enforcement officials. During this interview, he admitted that, utilizing the Internet service provider AOL, he had been trading child pornography with other individuals. He also admitted that he had saved child pornography on his computer. DIMEO further noted that the images he traded depict minors who ranged from infants to 17 years of ages.

The case was investigated by the FBI’s Cyber Predator Task Force.

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