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Kalihi man sentenced for child pornography

A Kalihi man was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in prison for child pornography.

Michael K. Kormanik, 54, was charged with and pled guilty to two counts of transportation of child pornography and one count of possessing child pornography and was sentenced by Senior District Judge Helen Gillmor in federal court. After serving his 20 years, he will be under supervised release for life and required to register as a sex offender, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

In court proceedings it was disclosed that Kormanik’s home computer had more than 3,000 images and more than 400 videos of child pornography, and an IP address associated with Kormanik on a peer-to-peer file sharing network also had images of child pornography, according to a press release.

Kormanik faced a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years because he had a prior conviction for sexual assault of a minor, related to his repeated sexual abuse of a 10-year-old boy. Kormanik also admitted having previously sexually abused two other young boys.

According to the press release, at sentencing Gillmor “expressed serious concern that Kormanik had recently been spending significant time with young boys who lived in his neighborhood, and that he had provided them with marijuana.”

2 responses to “Kalihi man sentenced for child pornography”

  1. DeltaDag says:

    By now you’d think people who traffic in this stuff would know the federal government is the biggest “purveyor” of child pornography on the planet.

  2. bluespop says:

    Put this POS into the general population. Let prison justice mete out some real, deserved punishment.

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