Brattleboro man sentenced for child porn

Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2014 10:50 am

BRATTLEBORO -- A Brattleboro man was sentenced Monday to a year in prison after pleading guilty to one count of possession of child porn.

According to a press release from the Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont, Grant Klein, 33, will also be subject to supervised release for 10 years after he has served his term in prison.

On Nov. 21, 2013, the Brattleboro Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation served a search warrant on Klein's Western Avenue home. A federal court in Maryland issued the search warrant because an image board server Klein used to access child pornography was located there. The website he accessed is designed to allow users to communicate and share files anonymously by routing traffic through multiple computers. However, the federal government was aware of the image server and was monitoring it when it identified Klein's IP address on Aug. 4.

"Klein admitted to using the computer network on which the website under investigation operated ... and to accessing, viewing and downloading child pornography ..." stated court documents.

United States Attorney Tristram Coffin commended the efforts of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Brattleboro Police Department, and the Vermont Internet Crimes Against Children Task in the investigation and prosecution of Klein, which was handled by Assistant U.S. Attorney Barbara A. Masterson.

The arrest and prosecution of Klein was part of the U.S. Department of Justice's Project Safe Childhood. To learn more, visit projectsafechildhood.gov.