北卡罗来纳州盖茨县累犯运输与持有儿童色情内容被陪审团定罪 面临最高40年监禁
美国司法部北卡罗来纳东区联邦检察官办公室公布，位于北卡罗来纳州 Gates 县的 Myron Curtis Pelech 被联邦陪审团裁定运输与持有儿童色情内容两项罪名成立。Pelech 现年46岁，别名 Ping Pelech。
Pelech 被捕时正处于联邦监管释放期。他此前于2016年在北卡罗来纳东区因接收儿童色情内容被定罪，出狱不到一年，就再次从事同类犯罪行为并被执法人员查获。
联邦调查局（FBI）探员追踪到有大量儿童性虐待材料经 BitTorrent 网络分享，来源指向 Pelech 在 Fayetteville 一家 Regency Inn 的房间，遂将其逮捕。BitTorrent 是一种去中心化的文件分享网络，用户之间可同时互传文件片段。
探员持搜查令搜查其房间时，在电视柜下方找到一部刻意藏匿的手机与一台平板电脑。手机的法证检查发现一张儿童性剥削网站的截图；平板电脑中则存有逾150段视频与逾200张儿童性虐待图片，内容涉及对年幼儿童的严重剥削。
Pelech 就运输儿童色情内容罪面临15年至40年联邦监禁，就持有罪面临10年至20年监禁。北卡罗来纳东区联邦检察官 Ellis Boyle 在联邦地区法官 Louise W. Flanagan 接受裁决后公布了上述结果，此案由 FBI 调查，案件编号为 7:22-CR-367-FL。
（来源：美国司法部）
Gates County Repeat Offender Convicted on Child Pornography Charges in North Carolina
A federal jury has convicted a Gates County, North Carolina, man of transporting and possessing child pornography, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced. Myron Curtis Pelech, 46, also known as “Ping Pelech,” was convicted of both charges.
At the time of his arrest, Pelech was already on federal supervised release following a prior conviction in the Eastern District of North Carolina for receiving child pornography in 2016. He had been out of prison for less than a year before agents caught him engaging in the same type of criminal conduct again.
FBI agents arrested Pelech after tracing a significant volume of child sexual abuse material shared over the BitTorrent network to his room at the Regency Inn in Fayetteville. BitTorrent is a decentralized file-sharing network in which users share pieces of a file with one another at the same time.
When agents executed a search warrant at his room, they recovered a concealed cell phone and a tablet hidden under the television stand. A forensic review of the cell phone revealed a saved screenshot of a website dedicated to child sexual exploitation, and agents found more than 150 videos and over 200 images of child sexual abuse material on the tablet, depicting severe exploitation of very young children.
Pelech faces 15 to 40 years in federal prison for transporting child pornography and 10 to 20 years for possessing child pornography. U.S. Attorney Ellis Boyle made the announcement after U.S. District Judge Louise W. Flanagan accepted the verdict. The FBI is investigating the case, which is filed as Case No. 7:22-CR-367-FL.
(Source: U.S. Department of Justice)
来源：美国司法部
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图片来源：图：美国司法部总部大楼（GSM联邦固定图库）。 / Photo: U.S. Department of Justice headquarters (GSM federal asset library).
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