Baldwinsville Man Pleads Guilty To Sexual Exploitation Of A Child
Wednesday, October 16, 2024, 6:15 A.M. ET. 2 Minute Read, By Art Fletcher: Englebrook Independent News,
SYRACUSE, NY.- On Tuesday, October 15, 2024, Kenneth Koegel, Jr., 40, of Baldwinsville, New York, appeared in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York and pleaded guilty to 7 counts of Sexual Exploitation of a Child; one count of Commission of a Felony Offense Involving a Minor by a Registered Sex Offender; one count of Distribution of Child Pornography; and one count of Receipt of Child Pornography.
According to U.S. Attorney Carla B. Freedman, as part of his entered guilty plea, Koegel admitted in court that he was previously convicted in 2004 in Monroe County, New York Superior Court of Sexual Abuse in the First Degree. The conviction was for Koegel exposing his penis to a 6-year-old girl in a public park and touching her vagina with his hand, and for that conviction, Koegel was required to register as a sex offender.
   Koegel further admitted that beginning around 2014 and lasting through October 2022, he sexually abused a girl from the time she was two years old until she was nine years old. During that time, Koegel filmed and created numerous sexually explicit digital images and videos depicting the sexual abuse of his victim, including Koegel subjecting her to multiple sex acts. Koegel also utilized an online Social Messaging Application to distribute the material he produced to another individual, with whom he also traded thousands of other child pornography images.
Sentencing Has Been Scheduled For March 5, 2024
Following Koegel’s allocution, U.S. District Judge Glenn T. Suddaby scheduled Koegel to be sentenced on March 5, 2025. If the court accepts the plea, Koegel will be sentenced to between 35 years and 50 years in federal prison, to be followed by a lifetime of supervised release. Koegel will also be required to pay restitution to the victim of his exploitation and to the victims of the child sexual abuse material he trafficked.
The case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the U.S. Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.
