Placer County man sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for sharing child porn online
A judge on Monday sentenced a Roseville man to 15 years in prison for sharing child pornography with Kik social media app users in Canada, prosecutors said.
Brian Baptise Formiconi, 49, of Roseville was sentenced on a charge of sexual exploitation of a child, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Sacramento announced Tuesday in a news release.
A Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigation into a large network of Kik Messenger users trading child porn online led U.S. Homeland Security investigators to Formiconi in Placer County.
Investigators reviewed some of the online Kik chats and found messages with nude images of a child sent by a Kik user, later identified as Formiconi, federal prosecutors said.
Information from Kik, internet service providers and other investigations led to the identification of Formiconi and the victim, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Canadian investigators in June 2018 determined the images shared on Kik showed Formiconi might have access to a girl he was sexually abusing, according to an affidavit filed July 3, 2018, in U.S. District Court Eastern District of California.
U.S. investigators served a search warrant at Formiconi’s Roseville home, where they found child porn images Formiconi had stored on his wife’s laptop, according to the affidavit filed by Homeland Security.
