Donald
Burak pleads guilty to having child porn
by Michael Ratcliffe/The
Times April 2008
TRENTON -- In pleading guilty to a single
charge of possessing child pornography, an
attorney who lives in Ewing admitted in
federal court Wednesday that he kept on his
computer hundreds of sexually-explicit and
violence-laced photos of children, U.S.
Attorney Christopher J. Christie announced.
Donald Burak, 49, of the 100 block of Tulip
Lane, entered his guilty plea before U.S.
District Judge Mary L. Cooper, and remains
free on a $100,000 bond until he is
sentenced on July 24, according to Christie.
Among the conditions of his bail, Burak
is not allowed to have contact with children
unless another adult is present and he is
not allowed access to the internet at home
and is only allowed internet access at work
if he is supervised, according to a court
document dated March 5.
In court Wednesday, Christie said, Burak
admitted that when authorities seized his
computer on June 14, 2007, it contained
child pornography that he had downloaded
from the internet.
"The computer contained more than 600
images of minors under the age of 12
engaging in sexually explicit conduct and
that certain images contained depictions of
sadistic or masochistic conduct or other
depictions of violence involving children,"
Christie said in a news release.
The charge to which Burak pleaded guilty
carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in
prison and a fine of $250,000.
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