Rochester Sex Offender Going to Prison on New Child Pornography Charges

U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Gregory Pum, 49, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of possession of child pornography by an individual with a prior sex offense conviction, was sentenced to serve 10 years in prison and 10 years supervised release by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Katelyn M. Hartford, who handled the case, stated that in January 2014, Pum was convicted in Monroe County Court of Possessing Sexual Performance by a Child Less than 16, and sentenced to serve six months in jail, followed by 10 years’ probation. Pum violated his probation terms and was resentenced to prison. He was discharged from parole on May 31, 2016.

In May 2022, law enforcement received two cybertips from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), that a user of an email account, later determined to belong to Pum, had uploaded 29 images and a video of child pornography to a file sharing site. Investigators later received seven additional  cybertips related to the same email account.

In June 2022, a search warrant was executed at Pum’s residence, during which electronic devices that contained images of child pornography were seized. On March 11, 2024, while Pum was on pretrial release, law enforcement executed another  search warrant at his residence after receiving two additional NCMEC cybertips. An iPhone was seized and found to contain 19 images and one video of child pornography.

The sentencing is the result of an investigation by the New York State Police, under the direction of Major Kevin Sucher, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, under the direction of Special Agent-in-Charge Matthew Miraglia, and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.