Castle Rock男子制作与分发儿童性虐待材料被判450个月监禁：另处终身监督释放
美国司法部科罗拉多区联邦检察官办公室11月5日宣布，科罗拉多州道格拉斯县 Castle Rock 市27岁男子 James Zachary Heath 因制作与分发儿童性虐待材料被判处450个月联邦监禁，并处终身监督释放。
Heath 此前已就一项制作儿童色情内容罪名与一项分发儿童色情内容罪名认罪。据认罪协议与量刑阶段查明的事实，2024年7月，一家境外执法机构在暗网上发现相关视频后循线追查，同年9月又找到一段更长的合集视频，最终锁定 Heath 的身份。
联邦检察官 Peter McNeilly 表示，这项长期监禁判决表明美国司法系统对这类骇人犯罪的严肃态度，他很高兴这名侵害者将在很长时间内离开社区。
联邦调查局（FBI）丹佛分局负责人 Amanda Koldjeski 表示，儿童性虐待材料不仅伤害最初的受害者及其家庭，也助长了相关影像的非法市场，FBI 将持续追查儿童侵害者。
本案由 FBI 丹佛分局调查，助理联邦检察官 Alecia L. Riewerts 负责起诉，联邦地区法官 S. Kato Crews 主持量刑。案件编号为 1:24-cr-00309-SKC。此案属司法部2006年启动的全国性「安全童年计划」（Project Safe Childhood）的一部分，该计划统筹联邦、州与地方资源，打击针对儿童的性剥削与性虐待，并识别、解救受害者。（来源：美国司法部）
Castle Rock Man Sentenced to 450 Months in Prison for Producing and Distributing Child Sexual Abuse Material
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Colorado announced on November 5 that James Zachary Heath, 27, of Castle Rock in Douglas County, Colorado, was sentenced to 450 months in federal prison and a lifetime of supervised release for producing and distributing child sexual abuse material.
Heath had pleaded guilty to one count of production of child pornography and one count of distribution of child pornography. According to the plea agreement and facts established at sentencing, a foreign law enforcement agency located a video on the dark web in July 2024 and, in September 2024, found a longer compilation video that ultimately led to Heath being identified.
United States Attorney Peter McNeilly said the lengthy sentence demonstrates how seriously the American justice system takes these horrendous crimes, and that he was glad this predator would be out of the community for a very long time.
Amanda Koldjeski, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's Denver Field Division, said child sexual abuse material harms the initial victims and their families and feeds an illegal marketplace for such images and videos, and warned that the FBI would find those who exploit children.
The FBI Denver Field Division investigated the case, Assistant United States Attorney Alecia L. Riewerts prosecuted it, and United States District Judge S. Kato Crews presided over the sentencing. The case number is 1:24-cr-00309-SKC. The case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, the nationwide initiative launched by the Department of Justice in May 2006 to combat child sexual exploitation and abuse and to identify and rescue victims. (Source: U.S. Department of Justice)
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