Sex Offender Going To Prison For 10 Years On Child Pornography Charge

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ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Daniel Rammacher, 63, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of possessing child pornography following a conviction for the New York State crime of Sexual Abuse in the First Degree, was sentenced to serve 10 years in prison and 10 years supervised release by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa. Rammacher was also ordered to pay $42,000 in restitution to victims.  

Assistant U.S. Attorney Kyle Rossi, who handled the case, stated that in 2014, Rammacher was arrested by the New York State Police in Warren County, NY, after it was discovered that he sexually abused a four-year-old child in his care. Rammacher was sentenced to serve a 10-year term of sex offender probation, which was transferred to the Monroe County Probation Department in 2015, after Rammacher moved to Rochester. During a routine visit in 2019, probation officers discovered that Rammacher possessed a laptop computer, which contained sexually explicit material, in violation of probation conditions. Officers confiscated the computer and, after a preview did not reveal the presence of any additional contraband, submitted the computer to the Regional Forensic Computer Laboratory in Rochester for a full forensic review. While the computer was being forensically examined, Rammacher confessed to probation officers that he had used the computer to access and view child pornography. The forensic analysis ultimately confirmed the presence of images of child pornography on the computer.  

The sentencing is the result of an investigation by the Monroe County Probation Department, under the director of Chief Probation Officer Jennifer Ball, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, under the direction of Special Agent-in-Charge Stephen Belongia. 

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