YOUNGSTOWN — Jeffrey A. Kiley, 38, Ewing Road in Boardman, was sentenced to two years in prison Monday for possessing child pornography on his electronic devices as a result of an investigation carried out by the Boardman Police Department and the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.

County prosecutors sought a three-year sentence for Kiley. He will be required to register as a tier-2 sex offender, requiring him to register in the county where he lives every 90 days for the rest of his life.

The case arose after the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force reported to the Boardman Police Department that Kiley had uploaded, downloaded and shared child pornography on a social media app.

It was determined that there were 20 images of child pornography on Kiley’s electronic devices, which were found when a Boardman officer conducted his investigation.

“The defendant did, in fact, admit to what he was doing to law enforcement. He was cooperative with the investigation,” said Daniel Yozwiak, county assistant prosecutor, who added that it is Kiley’s first offense.

Kiley’s attorney, Holly Hanni, told Judge R. Scott Krichbaum of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court she has been representing Kiley since the Boardman police contacted him regarding this case, but she also represented Kiley during his divorce, “where he has lost his family, his children, everything.”

She said Kiley cooperated with Boardman police. “He does admit he has a problem. I’ve looked into getting him into counseling,” but the program in Pennsylvania requires a court order to allow him to get the counseling, she said.

Hanni said, “Mr. Kiley has suffered in that he lost his family. He didn’t fight for visitation with his family, but he does provide for them.” She said paying child support is the reason he wants to “stay out of prison and pay child support.” She added, “This is a major flaw in him, but knowing him, I can’t believe he did it.”

Kiley told the judge that, at the time he viewed the images, “I didn’t realize the severity of it … didn’t realize those images I saw were real people. I realize now through counseling what a horrible mistake that was.”

He said, “I deserve punishment, but my kids don’t.” He said he works full-time and wants to continue to provide for them. He said he was “happily married” for 17 years and has four children, “and threw it all away for no reason.”

He said he never created a pornographic photo and uploaded it to the internet or saved an image to look at later. “It was simply someone would post a picture, and I would look at it, and then I would repost that same picture, drag and click.”

Judge Krichbaum said child pornography is “a great concern” and he called child pornography “disgusting, outrageous.” The judge said, “Those pictures you were viewing were somebody else’s kids. So I would imagine if somebody exploited your kids and did that, how you would feel about what justice would demand in that situation.”

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