BANGOR — U.S. District Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced Tuesday that Benjamin A. Rossignol, 22, of Stockholm, was sentenced in U.S. District Court by Chief Judge John A. Woodcock Jr. to 22 years in prison, to be followed by 20 years of supervised release, for possessing and distributing child pornography.
Rossignol pled guilty to the charges on May 8.
Court records reveal that in October 2013 the defendant created images of child pornography using a minor child. He sent three of those images to a covert Internet investigator with the Queensland Police Service (QPS) in Australia.
On Nov. 8, 2013, federal and state agents executed a search warrant at the defendant’s residence in Stockholm. A forensic examination of the defendant’s cell phone and computer revealed images identical to the ones sent to the QPS investigator and other child pornography.
The investigation was conducted jointly by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations, the Maine State Police Computer Crimes Unit, the Bangor Police Department and the QPS.
