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A former Miami firefighter could be spending the prime of his life in prison
after a federal jury found him guilty of downloading videos of child
pornography at his station.
Alexander Rousseau denied on the witness stand that he was responsible for
downloading the videos of young girls engaged in sexual acts, but the 12-
person Miami jury apparently did not believe him at his trial last week.
Rousseau, 30, could face between 20 and 30 years in prison at his sentencing
on Sept. 24, because of the numerous videos found on his laptop computer of
prepubescent girls engaged in explicit sexual activity.
U.S. District Judge Michael Moore might also find that he obstructed justice
by committing perjury during his testimony, which would lengthen his
sentence.
Rousseau, who joined Miami Fire Rescue in 2007, was convicted of six counts
of receiving and possessing the videos on his laptop at Miami fire station
No. 6, where he was assigned. Rousseau, who was arrested in April while on
duty at the fire station on the corner of Northwest 36th Street and Seventh
Avenue, has been detained without bond at the Federal Detention Center in
downtown Miami.
“Obviously, Mr. Rousseau and his family are very disappointed in the jury’
s verdict,” his defense attorney, Joel DeFabio, said Monday. “Now we need
to concentrate on minimizing his prison term under the sentencing guidelines
, which are excessively punitive.”
Rousseau’s type of cyber-crime has become increasingly common in the
internet age, with federal, state and local law enforcement agencies teaming
up to root out child-porn offenders through surveillance, chat rooms and
sting operations. Perhaps the most notorious offender in recent memory was
South Florida’s past special agent in charge of U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement, Anthony Mangione, whose career, ironically, was built
in part on investigating Internet crimes against children.
Punishment for such offenses has been recognized as especially harsh,
drawing criticism from the U.S. Sentencing Commission, which establishes
guidelines for judges and advises Congress on penalties.
“Although still only a small percentage of the overall federal caseload [
nationwide], child pornography prosecutions have grown significantly during
the past decade and now account for nearly 2,000 federal cases each year,”
the commission noted in a 2013 report.
“Several penalty enhancements in the guidelines for child pornography
offenses, such as use of a computer, now apply to typical offenders,” the
report said. “As a result, prison sentences for defendants convicted of
federal child pornography offenses have almost doubled in the last decade to
approximately five years for possession and 11 years for receipt and
distribution.”
The FBI uncovered Rousseau’s unlawful activity last December, when an agent
found a computer on the ARES peer-to-peer (P2P) sharing network with
folders containing suspected images of child pornography, according to a
criminal complaint. An FBI agent identified the computer’s Internet
Protocol address and downloaded eight files of suspected child-porn videos.
A law enforcement database check showed that the targeted Internet Protocol
address had been spotted on the ARES P2P file-sharing network since June of
last year. Most of the time the computer accessed ARES after 8 p.m., often
after 10 p.m., and ended before 4 am.
The FBI agent then learned that the account was registered with Comcast
Communications, the Internet service provider. With a subpoena, the agent
pinpointed the physical address of the subscriber, which led to Miami fire
station No. 6.
With a search warrant, federal agents and Miami police found a laptop
computer at the station: an Acer Aspire.
The laptop “was on and running on the bed in one of the individual sleeping
quarters for the employees,” the complaint said. The file sharing program
“running on the laptop, including a list of active downloads in progress at
that moment.” A wallet containing Alexander Rousseau’s Florida driver’s
license was found on a table next to the bed where the laptop was sitting.
That discovery led FBI agents to Rousseau, who was listed as working at the
fire station on all of the dates and times when the Internet Protocol
address had accessed the file-sharing network.
According to the criminal complaint, the videos portrayed girls under 12
engaged in graphic sexual activity with adult males.
At the fire station, Rousseau agreed to be interviewed after waiving his
Miranda rights, according to the criminal complaint.
“Although he did not admit to searching for the videos, he admitted that he
had downloaded and viewed some of them,” the criminal complaint said.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article1976454.html#storylink=cpy |
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