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Bronx Man Sentenced to Five Years in Prison for
Receiving and Distributing Child Pornography
LEV L. DASSIN, the Acting United States Attorney for
the Southern District of New York, announced that HAROLD LEE
CHANG YEN, 37, was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to
five years in prison and lifetime supervised release for receiving
and distributing child pornography. The sentence was imposed by
United States District Judge NAOMI REICE BUCHWALD.
YEN, of the Bronx, was arrested on January 11, 2007, by
special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI"),
and has remained detained since his arrest. According to the
charges, court papers, and statements made by YEN during his
guilty plea to Count One of the Indictment against him, YEN had
collected child pornography since the late 1990s. YEN used Peerto-
Peer software to obtain and share child pornography over the
Internet, and also stored child pornography on a collection of
approximately 100 CDs and DVDs which were seized by FBI Agents
during a search of YEN's apartment.
This case reflects the enforcement goals of Project
Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to coordinate federal,
state, and local law enforcement resources to investigate and
prosecute child exploitation cases and rescue the victims of
those crimes.
Mr. DASSIN praised the work of the FBI investigating
this case.
Assistant United States Attorney MICHAEL M. ROSENSAFT
is in charge of the prosecution.
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