Jacksonville man indicted for receiving child sexual abuse material

JACKSONVILLE, Florida — United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announced that Alexander James Koby, a 39-year-old from Jacksonville, has been indicted by a federal grand jury for knowingly receiving child sexual abuse material over the internet.

If convicted, Koby faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years, up to 40 years, in federal prison, and a potential lifetime term of supervised release. Koby, a convicted child sex offender, was previously convicted in 2014 for knowingly possessing child sexual abuse material. He is scheduled to make his initial court appearance on September 10, 2024, before United States Magistrate Judge Samuel J. Horovitz at the United States Courthouse in Jacksonville.

An indictment is merely a formal charge that a defendant has committed one or more violations of federal criminal law, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless, and until, proven guilty.

The case was investigated by Homeland Security Investigations and is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney D. Rodney Brown. This case is part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue child victims.

For more information about Project Safe Childhood, visit www.usdoj.gov/psc. For more information about internet safety education, visit www.usdoj.gov/psc and click on the tab "resources."