ELLSWORTH, Maine — A Bangor man recently began serving a 2½-year sentence for possession of child pornography.
Chad A. Leavitt, 27, was convicted earlier this month in Hancock County Superior Court of two counts of possession of sexually explicit materials involving children. One count involved materials involving children under age 12 while the other involved children under age 16.
The charges stem from a case from April 2010 that was handled by the state police’s computer crimes unit. Leavitt, who lived in Ellsworth when he was indicted in April 2011, began serving his sentence in the Hancock County jail Wednesday.
This guy gets 2 years and a guy the other day on here got 25 years..Crazy
i am sure the facts of the cases are completely different.
I know people who hav ehad kiddie porn mailed to them.
once it is on your computer, it is really hard to get off… the feds can easily read what you have already erased, even if you have written over it 8 or 10 times. if they want to.
so… someone mails you some pictures, or you click on a link and all sorts of pop up ads open up, each one containing kiddie porn.
how many years do you think you should serve?
If someone does e-mail you child porn report it to the FBI
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/cyber/innocent
I dont click on links from people I dont know! Pretty simple solution
whatever.
a lot of people opened a doc called “gertzky’s greatest moment” about 20 years ago, not knowing what it was… and it was kiddie porn
and posession of kiddie porn is a strict liability statute, it is not “knowingly posessing” kidding porn, it is “posessing”
same as statutory rape, it does not matter if the girl had 40 forms of identification and a letter from her congressman…. if you did it, it is a felony
but I am sure I am wrong about this too, so there is probably no need to correct me
Just keep on clicking on any piece of mail you get and cry about it later when we read your name on here!! You seem to know a lot about it! Listen to Kevin_Of_Bangor
Not true.. you can use free software that meets military standards to permanently erase files from a computer, http://eraser.sourceforge.net
Before you sell or junk a computer you should always securely overwrite the disk.. again free software is available, http://www.dban.org
what you are writing does not contradict what I wrote.
So sorry. I definitely intended to contradict what you wrote. You wrote, “the feds can easily read what you have already erased, even if you have written over it 8 or 10 times. if they want to.”
Please show me evidence of this. Studies show that residual magnetic traces are not “easily read” after overwriting, especially using the “secure erase” feature built-into SATA drives made after 2001. In fact, “secure erase commands discussed above erase all user data on the disk drive beyond physical disk drive forensic recovery” –
http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/DataSanitizationTutorial.pdf
(lots more references, but then you can find them too)
If you want to quibble that you said “overwriting”, instead of “secure erase” then you can search for and find the studies at NIST that show that simple overwriting of modern drives prevents recovery, even in laboratory settings.
However, if you want to talk about SSD drives, then that’s a different story. Because of wear-leveling, you have to fill the drive to ensure overwriting. “Eraser” mentioned above uses this technique.
I really don’t think people get busted for clicking a misleading link that sends you to kiddie porn…it usually involves buying it at some point or having tons of it.
That is the difference between a State prosecuted case and a Federal. The Federal sentencing guidelines are much stricter with less opportunity for weak Prosecutors to cut deals or sympathetic Judges to hand out sentences like this guy’s. It should be mandatory that all sex crimes against children be handled in Federal Court.
Agreed!
I always thought that county jails only house inmates for 9 or 12 months maximum. My guess is that he won’t be in Hancock County jail.
I thought it was only up to 364 days. 365 and over were for Windham or Warren.
Maybe because they know he will be out in 6 months with good behavior and probation. The average life sentence is actually 15 – 20 years, so the crazy logic of our justice system goes.
Hard to believe a guy like this would be into child porn I always figure it be 55 year olds and up that get into it. either way its wrong just dead wrong!
Anyway he’s off the street , right ?.
yeah but not for long enough!
Yeah , I agree !