NAMPA CHILD PORNOGRAPHER SENTENCED AGAIN

Daniel M. Davis, 49, will serve 168 months in federal prison followed by lifetime supervised release for possession of material involving the sexual exploitation of minors, U.S. Attorney Tom Moss announced today.

At sentencing, U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge stated, “This is one of the most heinous cases of child pornography in the court’s experience.” The judge went on to say that the defendant had been “given leniency when sentenced [previously] in 2002, and obviously didn’t learn anything from that because he re-offended while on supervised release.”

ICE agents identified Davis as a suspect in a nationwide child pornography investigation after they discovered his personal information and credit card data on a server that was facilitating payments for memberships to known child pornography websites. The data showed that Davis had purchased child pornography on three occasions in October and November of 2006. These transactions occurred while Davis was on supervised release and participating in sex offender treatment because of his 2002 conviction for receiving child pornography.

In August 2007, agents executed a search warrant at the home the defendant shared with his elderly mother. During the search, agents seized 242 printed images of child pornography, some of it neatly organized in binders. They also seized computer equipment, including a laptop that contained 3,129 sexually explicit images of minors. Some of the images Davis had collected depict prepubescent minors engaged in sado-masochistic activity. According to agents, some of the victims appeared to be less than six years old. Agents also noted that Davis’ home on Bristol Avenue, which he shares with his mother, is located 50-75 yards from a park and playground equipment.

After Davis was arrested, he manipulated his mother to hide another hard drive and other electronic media, which was later discovered to contain more than 60,000 additional images and 381 videos of child pornography. According to investigators, this hard drive contained the largest collection of child pornography they had ever encountered in Idaho.

Davis entered a guilty plea to possession of material involving the sexual exploitation of minors in June 2008.

This is Davis’s second conviction on child pornography charges. In March 2002, he pled guilty to receiving child pornography. In June of that year, he was sentenced to serve two years in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release, which included treatment for sexual deviancy. Davis served his prison time, successfully finished his period of supervision, and registered as a sex offender, however within months after finishing his term of supervised release, he was re-arrested and charged with possessing child pornography.

U.S. Attorney Tom Moss commended the Immigrations, Customs and Enforcement agents for their investigative efforts that led to the removal of a serious recidivist from our community.