The United States Attorney's Office Public Affairs Office: News Release February 4, 2009
MIAMI MAN CHARGED WITHTRANSPORTATION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHYR. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Jonathan I. Solomon, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami Field Office, and Sheriff Larry Blanton, Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office, Oregon, announced that defendant Gerald Corcoran , a retired Coast Guard Captain, now residing in Miami, made his initial appearance in federal court today on charges of transportation of child pornography, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2252(a)(1). If convicted, Corcoran faces up to 20 years’ imprisonment. As part of a child exploitation investigation, FBI agents discovered that an internet user in Florida was transmitting child pornography to an individual in Oregon. Further investigation revealed that the Florida internet user transmitting the child pornography was defendant Gerald Corcoran. A federal search warrant revealed that Corcoran’s American Online (AOL) email account had numerous images of child pornography. A forensic examination of the computer in Oregon revealed that Corcoran had sent to the individual in Oregon several emails containing images of child pornography. According to the complaint affidavit filed in this case, Corcoran admitted that he used his computer to transmit and receive child pornography to and from the Oregon individual. 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 United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov. Mr. Acosta thanked the FBI and all other law enforcement agencies involved in Project Safe Childhood for their work on this case. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Brent Tantillo. A copy of this press release may be found on the website of the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida at http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/fls . Related court documents and information may be found on the website of the District Court for the Southern District of Florida at http://www.flsd.uscourts.gov or on http://pacer.flsd.uscourts.gov.
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