BUFFALO — A 72-year-old West Seneca man was sentenced to 10 years in prison and lifetime supervised release following a conviction of possession of child pornography.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Aaron J. Mango, who handled the case, stated that between Aug. 30, 2013 and Sept. 1, 2013, Joseph S. Heleniak knowingly possessed images of child pornography that were stored on his AOL email account after obtaining them over the internet. Some of the images depicted prepubescent minors. Heleniak was previously convicted of possession of child pornography in 2005 in the Western District of New York and sentenced to 30 months in prison.
The sentencing is the culmination of an investigation on the part of Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Child Exploitation Task Force, under the direction of Adam S. Cohen, Special Agent in Charge, and the Cheektowaga Police Department under the direction of Chief David Zack. The task force includes the Buffalo Police Department, the Cheektowaga Police Department, and the Niagara County Sheriff’s Office.
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