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Previously Convicted Sex Offender Indicted for Receipt of Child Pornography
Jeffrey H. Sloman, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Jonathan I. Solomon, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami Field Office, today announced the return of an Indictment charging Stephen Bross, 38, with three counts of receipt of child pornography, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2252(a)(2). If convicted, Bross faces a minimum of fifteen years imprisonment, and a maximum of forty years imprisonment.
As alleged in the Indictment, and detailed in the criminal complaint, beginning in 2007, Bross, a previously convicted sex offender, engaged in internet chats with a minor female living in the Southern District of Florida. In those chats, Bross requested that the minor send him sexually explicit photographs and video of herself. In a forensic review of the minor’s computer, law enforcement officers recovered such photographs that were sent to Bross, as well as sexually explicit photographs of Bross that she had received.
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. Sloman commended the investigative efforts of the FBI. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Scott M. Edenfield.
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