FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE	CONTACT: Lauren Horwood
April 20, 2012	PHONE: (916) 554-2706
www.usdoj.gov/usao/cae	usacae.edcapress@usdoj.gov
Docket #: 2:11-0242 GEB

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that Brian David Clayworth, 43, of Citrus Heights, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. to four years in prison, to be followed by 10 years of supervised release for possession of child pornography.

According to court documents, in December 2004, federal agents in Los Angeles received information about a website selling access to child pornography. During that investigation, Clayworth was identified through email and financial records as someone who had purchased child pornography from the website on October 11, 2004.

On April 19, 2007, agents interviewed Clayworth at his home about the information that they had learned in the Los Angeles investigation. During this interview, Clayworth admitted to using the Internet to access child pornography websites. He admitted that he had been on his computer that morning looking at child pornography on the Internet.

Approximately 7,000 images and 200 videos were found on Clayworth’s desktop computer, approximately 600 images and 25 videos were found on his laptop computer, and more than 10,000 images and 400 videos were found on his external hard drive. Also found on the computers were emails documenting subscriptions to Internet-based child pornography websites, links to newsgroups known to trade child pornography, bookmarked child pornography websites, and keyword searches tied to child pornography.

This case is the product of an extensive investigation by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Office of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). Assistant United States Attorney Kyle Reardon prosecuted the case.

“There are few crimes as heinous as those that involve the exploitation of innocent children,” said Clark Settles, special agent in charge of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations San Francisco. “I applaud the diligence and commitment of the HSI special agents in Sacramento who investigated this case and brought the defendant to justice.”

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS) in the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.

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