NORTH TONAWANDA: Brokob’s federal sentence is 20 years
Staff Reports The Tonawanda News
Mitchell Brokob, the Gilmore Avenue man who kidnapped, drugged and sexually assaulted a young girl in March 2008, was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison and lifetime supervision in federal court on a guilty plea to receipt of child pornography.
Brokob, 41, will serve the federal sentence before being moved to the state penal system to finish serving his 25 years to life sentence in the assault case.
He was arrested in June 2008 for the March 20, 2008 abduction and sexual assault of a 12-year-old North Tonawanda girl in an abandoned house at 608 Gilmore Ave.
The girl was assaulted at knife point as she waited for her school bus. Brokob brought the girl to the abandoned home, just doors away from his own home at 592 Gilmore. She eventually escaped from an upstairs window by tying blankets together and shimmying down.
After Brokob was charged last summer in Niagara County Court, the FBI recovered 45 images of child pornography from a computer confiscated from Brokob’s home. A forensic analysis of that computer revealed that search terms such as “preteen child rape porn” and “cold steel knives” had been typed on the computer.
Assistant U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy Jr., the prosecutor who handled the case, and Chief Judge Richard J. Arcara, U.S. District Court, both commended the victim in the assault case for both “her courage and intelligence in escaping and overcoming her attack” by Brokob.
Under a plea bargain in Niagara County, Brokob last December agreed to the maximum charge, to run concurrent with the federal sentence. Brokob preferred the federal system because it has better medical facilities.
Brokob told Niagara County Court Judge Matthew Murphy at the time about numerous prescriptions he takes for depression and anxiety, as well as neck and back pain.
Should he be released from prison, which could occur in 2033 at the earliest, Brokob would be required to register as a sex offender and could be subject to monitoring for decades.
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Mitchell BrokobScott Schild/The Tonawanda News(Click for larger image)
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