ROCKFORD —(ENEWSPF)–June 3, 2015. A former Sycamore, Ill. resident was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala for possessing child pornography. MICHAEL PODOLSKY, 27, now of Elkader, Iowa, who pled guilty to the charge on January 27, 2015, was sentenced to 97 months imprisonment, to be followed by 5 years of supervised release. In his written plea agreement, Podolsky admitted that on and prior to July 12, 2013, he owned and was in possession of a computer at his home in Sycamore that contained more than 600 images of children engaged in sexually explicit conduct, and that among the images he possessed were images that depicted prepubescent minors engaged in sadistic conduct and violence.
