Mount Morris man sentenced for child porn, rape convictions

A Mount Morris man convicted of receiving child pornography was sentenced to 295 months in prison - more than 24 years - during an appearance Thursday in federal court before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci Jr.

Calvin R. Patrick, 35, had pleaded guilty to the charge in April. He was also sentenced Thursday in Livingston County Court on unrelated charges.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Tiffany H. Lee, who is handling the federal case, said that Patrick, in the fall of 2015, had enticed two minor females younger than 18 years old to send him sexually explicit pictures of themselves. Patrick used an application known as "Kik" to communicate with a 14-year-old female in Florida and a female in Pennsylvania who was not quite 12 years-old.

Lee, in a prior news release issued in December 2015, stated that according to the complaint, law enforcement was notified by a cooperating witness who saw the contents of Patrick's electronic tablet that appeared to depict a nude 14-year-old female. The witness also told law enforcement that she was aware that Patrick had been communicating with an 11 year old and had made comments in the past about picking her up and keeping her locked up.

A search warrant was conducted by Livingston County Probation and Mount Morris Police at Patrick's apartment where the tablet, a computer and other items were seized. A forensic analysis determined that Patrick had been chatting on Kik with two minors younger than the age of 18 who resided out of state, the U.S. Attorney's office said.

The investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, under the direction of Special Agent-in-Charge Adam S. Cohen; the Mount Morris Police Department, under the direction of Chief Kenneth Mignemi; the Livingston County Probation Department, under the direction of Director Lynne C. Mignemi; and the Livingston County District Attorney's Office, under the direction of Gregory J. McCaffrey.

The case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat child sexual exploitation and abuse.

Patrick, who is currently an inmate at Mid-State Correctional Facility in Marcy, Oneida County, was also sentenced Thursday by Livingston County Court Judge Dennis Cohen to 10 years in state prison for first-degree attempted rape, a class B felony punishable by 5 to 25 years in prison and fines up to $5,000. Cohen also assessed fines and surcharges of $1,375.

The sentence, which will be served concurrent with the federal sentence, is the result of a plea deal reached in April on charges that Patrick had kept a sex slave in his apartment for six months. Patrick pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree rape, which satisfied a multi-count indictment against him.

Patrick had been indicted in December 2015 by a Livingston County Grand Jury and charged with rape, four counts of unlawful imprisonment, two counts of first-degree criminal sexual act, third-degree aggravated sexual abuse and strangulation as a sexually-motivated felony.

The indictment accused Patrick of holding a woman against her will in his apartment and raping and sexually assaulting her. At the time, court documents revealed he also threatened an 11-year-old girl, telling her he would keep her locked up, too.

Two weeks after that indictment, Patrick was charged in federal court with attempted production of child pornography, enticement of a minor and possession of child pornography.

Patrick's term at Mid-State, a sentence of 16-months to 4 years, is the result of a 2016 conviction in Livingston County Court for violating probation on a 2008 conviction in Wyoming County for possessing a sexual performance by a child less than 16 years old, a class E felony. He was living in Perry at the time of that conviction, which also required him to register as a Level 1 sex offender with the New York State Sex Offender Registry.