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Martinsburg Man Sentenced to 15 Years in Federal
Prison for Distributing and Possessing Child Pornography
Published: February 02, 2022
at 05:00 p.m.
By: Press Release from U.S. Attorney’s Office
Lewis County Man Sentenced to 15 Years for
Distributing and Possessing Child Pornography
SYRACUSE, NEW
YORK – Randell Adsit, age 51, of Martinsburg,
New York, was sentenced today to 180 months in prison for distributing and
possessing child pornography. The announcement was made by United States
Attorney Carla B. Freedman and Janeen DiGuiseppi,
Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI).
As part of his
previously entered guilty plea, Adsit, who has a prior
New York State conviction for possessing a sexual performance by a child,
admitted that he distributed child pornography using a social media
application from approximately February 2020 through September 2020. Adsit also admitted that on November 11, 2020, he
possessed, on his cell phone, approximately 40 files depicting child
pornography.
United States
District Judge David N. Hurd also imposed a 15-year term of
post-imprisonment supervised release. As a result of his conviction, Adsit will be required to register as a sex offender
upon his release from prison.
This case was
investigated by the FBI Syracuse Mid-State Child Exploitation Task Force,
comprised of FBI Special Agents and Investigators of the New York State
Police, Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI), and Computer Crimes Unit
(CCU), and was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael D. Gadarian as part of Project Safe Childhood.
Launched in May
2006 by the Department of Justice, Project Safe Childhood is led by United
States Attorney’s offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation
and Obscenity Section (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 https://www.justice.gov/psc.
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