Rockford Man Sentenced to Six and a Half Years in Federal Prison for Possession of Child Pornography

ROCKFORD — A Rockford man has been sentenced to six and a half years in federal prison for possession of child pornography.

GREGORIO BACINO, 27, admitted in a plea agreement that in 2021 he knowingly possessed on his cellular telephone over 1,000 images and videos of minors, including those as young as infants, engaged in sexually explicit conduct.   

U.S. District Court Judge Iain D. Johnston on Friday sentenced Bacino to six and a half years in federal prison, to be followed by 25 years of court-supervised release.  Bacino also must register as a sex offender.

The sentence was announced by Morris Pasqual, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, and Sean Fitzgerald, Special Agent-in-Charge of Homeland Security Investigations in Chicago.  The government was represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert S. Ladd.