Crime & Safety

Former Wheaton Babysitter Sentenced in Child Porn Case

A man who worked as a live-in babysitter in Wheaton was sentenced to 12 years and seven months in federal prison for transporting and possessing child pornography.

A Lockport man was sentenced to 12 years and seven months in federal prison for transporting and possessing child pornography, federal law enforcement officials announced Friday.

According to a press release from the FBI, Lubos Albrecht, 25, had just begun working as a live-in-babysitter for a family in Wheaton when he was arrested in March 2010.

He pleaded guilty in April this year to two counts of transporting child pornography and one count of possessing child pornography. According to court records, Albrecht had amassed a computerized collection that contained approximately 10,000 images and 1,000 videos of child pornography.

The investigation was conducted by the Chicago FBI’s Innocent Images Task Force, and the government was represented in court by Assistant U.S. Attorney Marc Krickbaum.

The sentence was announced today by Gary S. Shapiro, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois; Robert D. Grant, Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; and Frank Benedetto, Special Agent in Charge of the Secret Service in Chicago.

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