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Roswell Man Sentenced On Child Pornography Charges

The member of the Boy Lovers Network will be imprisoned for 23 years.

Daryl Demkey, 28, of Roswell, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Willis B. Hunt Jr. for the production and possession of child pornography as part of the Boy Lovers Network (BLN).

Demkey was sentenced to 23 years in prison, to be followed by a lifetime of supervised release, according to a news release by the U.S. Attorney's office. There is no parole in the federal system. He is also required to register as a sex offender upon his release from custody.  Demkey pled guilty to the charges on Sept. 1, 2010.

During an international investigation into BLN, a global organization of pedophiles, agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) determined that several men in northern Georgia were BLN members and collectors and distributors of child pornography, including Joseph Gittings and Dale Hodges. U.S. Attorney Sally Quillian Yates and the information presented in court. revealed that during the investigation of those two men, ICE agents determined that Demkey, also at one time a BLN member, had a sexual interest in children and was a likely collector of child sexual abuse images. 

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In November 2009, following the execution of search warrants and the arrests of Gittings and Hodges, ICE agents encountered Demkey and determined that he had recently molested a nine-year old boy and recorded the abuse on his camera in still images and video. Agents subsequently found those images and videos on Demkey's computer. He also possessed additional images showing the sexual abuse of children on his computer, most of which he received directly from Hodges.

“There are few more heinous crimes than the sexual abuse of a young child. Because of the proactive efforts by agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, we were able to put a stop to the abuse perpetrated by Demkey before it continued any further," Yates said.

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 “Protecting our children from individuals like this, who prey upon and sexually exploit children is a top priority for ICE,” said Brock Nicholson, Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement-Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Atlanta. “Sexual predators should know that ICE will do everything in its power and use every tool at its disposal to keep our children safe - whether the potential victims are around the block or around the world.”

This case is being prosecuted as a priority of the Justice Department's Project Safe Childhood. In February 2006, the Attorney General launched Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative designed to protect children from online exploitation and abuse. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.


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