Inside ICE: Volume 2, Issue 17

Wisconsin Man Gets 50 Years for Child Sex, Porn Conviction

GREEN BAY, Wis. — A Beaver Dam man was sentenced to 50 years in prison August 9 for enticing minors into sex acts and possessing child pornography.

William Martin, 34, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 20 years in prison on each of two counts of sexual exploitation of children, and to 10 years in prison for one count of possessing child pornography. Martin was also sentenced to nine years supervised release.

During sentencing, Judge William Griesbach referred to Martin as the mastermind of an Internet-based child porn ring whose members sexually molested children and shared photographs, videos and live broadcasts of the acts with each other.

According to court documents, Martin lured several boys, some as young as nine years old, into his apartment, where he molested them and had them perform sex acts with each other. One witness said Martin gave the boys' mothers drugs to keep them occupied.

The case against Martin emerged after law enforcement authorities in Michigan arrested a man in 2003 who was a member of the ring. That man, Brian Scott Urbanawiz, ultimately pleaded guilty to child sex crimes last year and was sentenced to 35 years in prison. That case led FBI and ICE to Wisconsin where the investigation into the activities of William Martin and others resulted in the convictions of several men:

Joel Kline, 42, of Beaver Dam, Wis., was convicted of two counts of aggravated sexual abuse with children and two counts of travel with intent to engage in a sexual act with a juvenile. He was sentenced to two life terms in prison and three 360-month terms.

Adam Brown, 32, formerly a police officer in Riverside, Calif., was convicted of travel with intent to engage in a sexual act with a juvenile. He was sentenced to 365 months in prison.

Robert Hornyak, 60, of Milwaukee, Wis., was convicted of receiving and distributing child pornography and sentenced to 78 months in prison.

Kurt Sandvig, 44, of Kansas City, Mo., was convicted of travel with the intent to engage in a sexual act with a juvenile. He was sentenced to 360 months in prison.

“ICE and our law enforcement partners have succeeded in taking a group of child molesters off the streets for decades,” said Resident Agent-in-Charge Brian Falvey of the Milwaukee ICE office. “Our message to those who contemplate such crimes is this: We will not stand by as you prey on the most vulnerable among us. We will find you, prosecute you, and incarcerate you.”

Operation Predator is ICE's comprehensive initiative to safeguard children from foreign national pedophiles, international sex tourists, Internet child pornographers, and human traffickers.

Since Operation Predator began July 9, 2003, the initiative has resulted in more than 6,000 child predator arrests throughout the country, an average of 250 arrests per month or eight arrests per day.

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