BOSTON, Dec. 18, 2014—A Dorchester man was convicted yesterday of possessing child pornography and trading it using an online file-sharing service, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said.
A West Roxbury Municipal Court jury found FRANCISCO RIVERA-YORRO (D.O.B. 3/3/62) guilty of possession of child pornography and dissemination of obscene images. At the request of Assistant District Attorney Christina Miller, Conley’s Chief of District Courts, Judge Mary Ann Driscoll sentenced Rivera-Yorro to two and a half years in the house of correction.
State Police assigned to the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force on June 21, 2010, developed information that an unknown user of the peer-to-peer file-sharing program LimeWire was distributing images of child pornography. Troopers were able to connect with that user’s computer through the program and identified 11 sexually explicit video clips depicting children as young as 5 years old.
Using an administrative subpoena, investigators obtained the subscriber information linked to the computer hosting the child pornography. When the digital trail led to Rivera-Yorro’s Franklin Hill Avenue home, State Police provided their evidence to the Boston Police Crimes Against Children Unit.
A search warrant was executed at the residence the following January, during which Boston Police seized several electronic devices, including two desktop computers, and several CDs. One of the computers was found to contain images of child pornography, while LimeWire was found on the second computer.
With the assistance of the US Secret Service Electronic Crimes Task Force, several deleted files were recovered from one of the seized computers; those files were found to be videos depicting child exploitation. Additional images of child pornography were found on four CDs seized from the home. An investigation revealed that Rivera-Yorro began downloading the images to the new computers as early as the summer of 2009.
Rivera-Yorro was represented by Jessica Hedges.
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All defendants are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
