Parkville Man Sentenced for Sex Crime

A Parkville man was sentenced in federal court to 15 years in prison after he pleaded guilty today to sexually exploiting a child to produce child pornography.

Jeremy Guzewicz, 28, was sentenced to prison and lifetime supervision upon his release by U.S District Court Judge Marvin J. Garbis, according to a press release issued by the Department of Justice earlier this afternoon. 

Guzewicz will have to register as a sex offender in the places where he resides, is an employee, and is a student, under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act.

During the trial it was revealed that Guzewicz had been portraying himself as an older man with stepchildren on a social networking Web site geared to teenagers beginning in July 2006. Guzewicz is single and has no children, prosecutors said.

Guzewicz used the website to introduce himself to a 12-year-old girl from Massachusetts. Shortly thereafter, he began asking the girl for sexually explicit pictures. He also called the victim many times by phone, and sent a sexually explicit photo to her, which he said was of himself.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. 

For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit the project website here.

Details about Maryland’s program are available here.