Middle District of Florida | Convicted Jacksonville Sex Offender Charged with Receiving Child Abuse Material Over the Internet

Jacksonville, Florida – United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announced that Alexander James Koby, 39, of Jacksonville, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Jacksonville for knowingly receiving child sexual abuse material over the Internet. If convicted, Koby faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years, up to 40 years, in federal prison and a possible sentence of life supervised release.

Koby is a convicted child molester who was convicted in 2014 on a federal charge of knowingly possessing child abuse material. Koby is scheduled to make his initial court appearance in this case before U.S. Magistrate Judge Samuel J. Horovitz at the U.S. Courthouse in Jacksonville on September 10, 2024.

An indictment is nothing more than a formal charge that a defendant has committed one or more violations of federal criminal law. Every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.

This case was investigated by Homeland Security Investigations. It is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney D. Rodney Brown.

It’s another case brought as 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. Led by the United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to investigate, 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 “resources” tab.