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Brookfield man charged in FBI child-porn probe
By JOHN W. GOODWIN JR.
YOUNGSTOWN
The FBI has charged a Brookfield Township man with receiving and distributing child pornography over the Internet and by mail.
Brian J. Radachy, 51, of Warren-Sharon Road, is charged with receiving and sharing the illegal images of sexual acts involving minors. He is to appear at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday before a federal magistrate in the Thomas D. Lambros Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse on Market Street.
Radachy is a registered sex offender with the Trumbull County Sheriff’s Department, according to a federal-court affidavit.
The investigation into Radachy began in February when an agent from the Federal Bureau of Investigation accessed a set of shared Internet files in California containing hundreds of images of child pornography. The FBI determined the files belonged to Radachy.
According to the affidavit, the images contained photos of boys age 7 and 8 involved in sex acts with adult males and young boys involved in sex acts with other boys.
The FBI in April issued a search warrant for Radachy’s home. Police confiscated about 600 compact discs from Radachy’s bedroom that reportedly contained images of nude boys and men engaged in sexual acts of various types.
According to the affidavit, Radachy was interviewed by agents conducting the search warrant and admitted using a file-sharing program to trade child pornography for the last two or three years.
He estimated having about 1,000 compact discs containing child pornography.
The affidavit also states that Radachy told police he has an interest in boys between age 8 and 16 because of the lack of sexual maturity of the children.