How Could You? Hall of Shame- Former Cop and CPS Worker Stanley Dorozynski UPDATED

This will be an archive of heinous actions by those involved in child welfare, foster care and adoption. We forewarn you that these are deeply disturbing stories that may involve sex abuse, murder, kidnapping and other horrendous actions.

From Utica, New York, a 2010 case is back in the news.

Stanley Dorozynski was a Utica police  officer from 1980 to 2000. He became a county CPS caseworker in 2008. He was arrested and arraigned on December 21, 2010 after a search warrant was executed. He was charged with one count of possessing child pornography and one count of receiving it.  During the search officers found 11 zip discs in  Dorozynski’s home containing child pornography, some involving children as young as four years old.

The  investigation began in October 2010 when 47-year-old former live-in  girlfriend  told police that her nine-year-old daughter of said she saw him watching naked children on  the computer.

In June 2010,” the young girl first told her mother that  she had seen Dorozynski sitting at his computer  while watching a video of a young girl stripping,  according to the complaint. During that same week,  the woman’s 16-year-old daughter told her mother that she also had seen Dorozynski with pornography  that included young girls. The following week in June, the woman — who was not  identified in the complaint — reviewed Internet  sites on Dorozynski’s computer and several images,  the complaint states. There she saw thousands of  images of girls between 11- and 15-years-old-posing sexually or engaging in sexual activity, Grant  wrote.

The woman went into Dorozynski’s bedroom and  unlocked a trunk at the foot of his bed with a key that was in a jewelry box on his dresser, Grant  wrote. Inside the trunk she located eight or more  zip computer hard drives, which were labeled “XXX   teen, 9-11” and “XXX Lolita, 11-13.” When Dorozynski’s girlfriend confronted him about these images, Dorozynski accused her and her two children of “invading his privacy,” Grant wrote. The woman’s cousin, who is a retired police officer, told her to contact Dorozynski’s employers at the county Child Protective Services, the complaint states,”according to GateHouse News Service. The woman and her children moved out on July 7, 2010.

“The case will be prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office.  If convicted of the felony charges, Dorozynski faces a minimum of five years and a maximum of 20 years in  federal prison, fines of up to $250,000 and a  minimum of five years of supervised release. He also would be required to register as a sex offender, the  release stated.”

July 25, 2012

Stanley pleaded guilty Wednesday July 25, 2012 to possessing child  pornography. According to the Observer-Dispatch he will be “sentenced in U.S. District  Court on Friday, Dec. 7 [2012]. He was immediately taken into  custody following his plea.

Dorozynski will also have to register as a sex offender, pay a fine of up to $250,000 and face a term of supervised release that could potentially last the rest of his life.

During his plea, Dorozynski acknowledged that he  knowingly possessed a computer, compact disks and zip  disks that contained images of child pornography. And  because the images were transported through interstate and foreign commerce using a computer, the allegations  rose to the level of a federal crime.”

 Sources:

Former officer arrested for child pornography

[Ynn 12/21/10 by Katie Gibas]

Child abuse case worker released pending child pornography case

[Herkimer Telegram 12/24/10 by Roccoa LaDuca/GateHouse News Service]

Ex-child abuse caseworker admits possessing child pornography

[Utica Observer-Dispatch 7/25/12 by Rocco LaDuca]

REFORM Puzzle Piece

Update: “Dorozynski had been a Utica police officer for 10 years when “curiosity” prompted him to first began looking at images of child pornography in 1990, according to federal court documents.

But then for many years after, Dorozynski continued to download child pornography online even as he began employment as a case worker for the Oneida County Child Protective Services until his arrest in 2010, the documents state.

Now, as he was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court to six years in prison, Dorozynski tried to minimize his actions by saying that when he viewed graphic images of child pornography, he did not see the children as real victims because they were “just images on the screen.”

“No rational person, much less a law enforcement officer and child protective worker, could honestly assert that the children portrayed in images memorializing their rape, sodomy, and sexual abuse are not ‘real victims,’” Assistant U.S. Attorney Lisa Fletcher wrote in her pre-sentence papers.

To further make her point, Fletcher quoted several of the victims who have been identified in the images that Dorozynski collected:

“In those pictures of me, there is a girl, trapped there, saying ‘please rescue me,’” one victim stated. “And instead of seeing a girl being used and abused in that picture or pictures, these men decide they would rather revictimize me by using the pictures for their own sick sexual desires, and trade them with others so they can do the same.”

On Friday, U.S. District Judge David N. Hurd also sentenced 55-year-old Dorozynski to 10 years of supervision upon his release from prison as a registered sex offender. The most Dorozynski could have faced in prison was 10 years.

As part of his sentence, Dorozynski agreed to pay $4,000 in restitution to one of the victims identified in his images. Two other identified victims also sought restitution from Dorozynski, but they withdrew their requests at the last minute in order to potentially seek restitution through other litigation, Fletcher said.

In pre-sentence documents, Dorozynski’s attorney, Kimberly Zimmer, pointed out that Dorozynski never distributed the pornographic images and, most importantly, never inappropriately touched a child or even suggested that he had a desire to do so.

“His conduct does not stem from any pedophilia tendencies but rather is related to other emotional issues and struggles connected with his divorce, his obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, and his lifelong tendency to collect things,” Zimmer wrote.

After the proceeding, Fletcher explained why it is important that the people like Dorozynski who view child pornography pay financial restitution to those victims whose “shame and pain” served as their sickening entertainment.

“When you see a financial responsibility to pay back the children you hurt, in addition to incarceration, it shows others as well that there’s a real person at the end of these images,” Fletcher said.’

Ex-child case worker gets 6 years for possessing child porn

[Utica Observer-Dispatch 6/7/13 by Rocco DeLuca]