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August 14, 2006

FORMER BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA SUMMER CAMP DIRECTOR
SENTENCED FOR DISTRIBUTING AND RECEIVING IMAGES
OF CHILD SEXUAL EXPLOITATION

Sentence includes 87-month prison term
FRESNO - United States Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced today that MICHAEL
SHAWN CAREATTI, 38, of Bakersfield, California was sentenced today by the Honorable
Oliver W. Wanger for one count of distributing and receiving visual depictions of the sexual exploitation of minors.

CAREATTI had been employed by the Boy Scouts of America and, at the time of his arrest, was working as a Scout Handler assigned to Camp Kern in Lakeshore, California. CAREATTI previously had been the camp director.

The court sentenced CAREATTI to a prison term of 87 months and a supervised release term of three years. The court noted that the number of the images involved in the offense justified the prison sentence, which was the top of the relevant sentencing range. CAREATTI has been in federal custody since his change of plea on May 8, 2006.

According to Assistant United States Attorney David Gappa, who prosecuted the case,
CAREATTI admitted as part of a plea agreement that on April 22, 2003, he operated a file server program on a computer that allowed users around the world to upload and download images of the sexual exploitation of minors. Users who uploaded images received credits that allowed them to take images from CAREATTI’S computer. The distribution involved material depicting prepubescent minors as well as images of minors engaged in sadistic or masochistic conduct or other violence.

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