In the United States, a citizen of Ukraine, who has become the largest distributor of children's pornography, was sentenced to 30 years in prison

In the city of Newark, New Jersey, on Tuesday, was sentenced to a citizen of Ukraine Maxim Shinkarenko , who was found guilty of creating an Internet resource for trading photo and video materials with scenes of rape of children. A native of the post -Soviet space has become the most active distributor of prohibited pornography, whose services were addressed by hundreds of American pedophiles.

The 35-year-old resident of Kharkov Maxim Shinkarenko was detained at the request of the American authorities in Thailand in January 2009. In June 2012, he was extracted in the United States, where he was charged with 32 points, writes The Huffington Post .

As the investigators established, while in Ukraine, Shinkarenko created a website with children's pornography. At a price of $ 80, he began to sell access to it to customers around the world.

The site for pedophiles, on which tens of thousands of videos and photographs were posted, operated in the period from 2005 to 2008. Other resources with characteristic names were also created by Shinkarenko: Illegal.cp (“Forbidden Children's Porn”), The Sick Child Room (“Plague Children's Room”), Hottest ChildPorn Garden (“Garden with the most burning children's pornography”).

According to the prosecutor Paul Fishman, Maxim Shinkarenko spread images with the most cruel and perverted scenes of violence against children, including infancy.

According to American legislation, Shinkarenko threatened a lifelong conclusion. However, he pleaded guilty and agreed to make a deal with the investigation, ITAR-TASS reports.

In his last word, Shinkarenko expressed repentance and thanked the judge for "giving him the opportunity to change his life."

“You pleaded guilty of one of the most serious crimes from the point of view of our society,” said Judge William Valls. “I cannot imagine anything more terrible.”

According to the American authorities, Maxim Shinkarenko became the largest distributor of children's pornography that fell on the bench of the defendants in the United States. The investigation in the Shinkarenko case led to the arrest of more than 600 customers of his site in 47 US states. In New Jersey alone, 30 people were arrested and convicted, reports The Kansas City Star .

We add that the lawyer of the convict Nicholas Wuldridge asked to take into account the punishment for almost 3.5 years, which Shinkarenko spent in Thai prisons. He also asked to mitigate his client on the grounds that in Asia prisoners are contained in particularly difficult conditions. However, the judge rejected these petitions.

Shinkarenko himself Wuldridge described as a “smart guy” who graduated from the technical college in Ukraine and became a computer scientist. According to the lawyer, Maxim did not participate in the production of children's pornography, but only distributed materials falling into his hands, writes The Republic .

Three victims of the child, the images of which were distributed by Maxim Shinkarenko, filed against him by court claims. But then they recalled them, said the assistant prosecutor Mark McCaren.

We add that in the United States, Kharkiv Schinkarenko has no assets. After serving the term of conclusion, deportation awaits him.