Ramon Paul Fernandez of Bridgeport was sentenced to a year in prison Thursday after a 2009 investigation revealed child pornography on a computer at his old Ansonia apartment.
A Milford police detective, assigned to the Connecticut Computer Crimes Task Force, found the child pornography in September 2009 when he tapped into an Internet file-sharing network, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice.
The Connecticut Computer Crimes Task Force consists of federal, state and local law enforcement agencies. The task force works with the FBI to investigate crimes over the Internet, like child pornography, fraud, harassment and copyright violations.
The investigation revealed that images and videos of child pornography had been sent to an apartment in Ansonia where Fernandez used to live, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
In December 2009, law enforcement officials obtained a search and seizure warrant for the apartment. They seized a desk top computer.
During questioning, 37-year-old Fernandez admitted that he used an Internet filing sharing network to download the images.
He was sentenced in Hartford by United States District Judge Robert N. Chatigny to 12 months and one day of imprisonment followed by 10 years of supervised release.
Fernandez’s case and prosecution is part of a larger initiative that targets child pornography and abuse, called the U.S. Department of Justice’s Project Safe Childhood Initiative.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Deborah R. Slater.
