Carmichael Man Arrested For Child Pornography

A Carmichael man was among five men arrested and charged with child pornography offenses, the U.S. Department of Justice has announced.

A federal grand jury indicted the defendants last Thursday, and the indictments were unsealed Monday, said United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner.

Alan Irwin Burnor, 65, of Carmichael, was charged with receipt and distribution of child pornography and possession of child pornography, justice department officials said. The indictment alleges that between July 23, 2010 and Oct. 16 of this year, Burnor received visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct and on Sept. 19, he shared files of child pornography through a file sharing Internet website.

According to court documents, among those files were images and movies with file names that described incest, the rape of “Little Girls,” and the molestation of children as young as nine. Burnor was arraigned Monday, pleaded not guilty, and was released on $25,000 bond with electronic monitoring, justice department officials said.

The other men were:

-Matthew Mark Battersby, 44, of Folsom

-Donald G. Callahan, 62, of Rocklin

-Daniel James Harden, 23, of Antioch

-Terry Alan Snider, 65, of Manteca

“Trafficking in child pornography creates a market for images of harmful child exploitation," Wagner said in a released statement. "In the last year, this office indicted a record number of cases involving child pornography, and we will continue to emphasize the prosecution of child exploitation offenses.”

These cases are the product of extensive investigations by the Sacramento Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, the California Department of Justice and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations. The Sacramento ICAC is a federally and state-funded task force managed by the Sacramento Sheriff’s Department and made up of agents from federal, state, and local agencies.