(WNY News Now) – U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that a 37 yea-old resident of Phelps, NY, who was convicted of receipt and distribution of child pornography, was sentenced to serve 20 years in prison, 15 years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $21,000 in restitution by U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci.
ROCHESTER, N.Y.- Assistant U.S. Attorney Kyle P. Rossi, who handled the case, stated that on January 20, 2023, the FBI in Rochester received information from the FBI in Anchorage Alaska, that an individual located in Phelps, NY, may have been responsible for exchanging child pornography with an individual in Alaska. Subsequent investigation determined that individual was Eric Passalacqua, 37. On January 24, 2023, a search warrant was executed at Passalacqua’s Phelps residence. A forensic examination of his phone recovered over 600 images of child pornography, including images that Passalacqua produced depicting a minor victim. Passalacqua also admitted to producing images of another minor victim.
The sentencing is the result of an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation Child Exploitation Human Trafficking Task Force, under the direction of Special Agent-in-Charge Matthew Miraglia and the Anchorage Office of the FBI, under the direction of Special Agent-in-Charge Antony A. Jung.
Inventions that were forward of their time might help us to know whether
or not we are truly ready to live in the world we are
making. Speculative fiction fans know which you can create a
whole world out of just a handful of objects. A
lightsaber can start to describe a whole galaxy far, far away; a handheld communicator, phaser, and
tablet can depict a star-trekking utopia; a black monolith can stand in for an entire alien civilization. World-constructing isn’t about
creating imaginary worlds from scratch – accounting for their each detail – however hinting at them
by highlighting mere aspects that signify a coherent actuality beneath
them. If that reality is convincing, then the world is inhabitable by the imagination and its stories are endearing to the heart.
Creating objects in the actual world is sort of exactly the identical; that’s why
invention is a danger. When we create something
new – really, categorically, conceptually new – we place a wager on the steadiness
of help it will have on this planet by which it emerges and the facility it must remake that world.