A Pennsylvania man is facing several charges of child pornography after an investigation determined he had been sharing inappropriate images online with a New West teen.
In October 2013, officers at the New Westminster Police Department received a call from a local family.
According to police, the family was concerned their teenage daughter was sharing inappropriate images with an unknown suspect in the United States.
New Westminster officers conducted an initial investigation into the complaint and then forwarded what they had gathered to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which began its own investigation into the matter.
“On March 11, 2014, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 20-year-old male, Taylor Bzdyr, had been indicted by a federal grand jury in Scranton, Pennsylvania on charges of producing child pornography and online enticement of a minor,” announced a media release from the New Westminster Police Department.
If convicted of the child pornography charge, Bzdyr faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in prison and a maximum of 30 years in prison. He faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years and a possible life sentence if convicted of online enticement of a minor.
