PRIOR SEX OFFENDER GOING TO PRISON FOR MORE THAN 38 YEARS FOR RAPING A 14-YEAR-OLD

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – U.S. Attorney Michael DiGiacomo announced today that

Kelvin Hunt, 48, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of production of child

pornography following a prior conviction, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of

drug trafficking, was sentenced to serve 465 months in prison by U.S. District Judge

Charles J. Siragusa.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicholas M. Testani, who handled the case, stated that in

March 1995, Hunt was convicted in Monroe County Court of Sexual Abuse in the First

Degree and sentenced to 2 to 6 years in prison. On February 2, 2024, he entered the home

of a 14-year-old minor victim in Rochester, and forcibly raped her. Hunt then took the

minor victim’s cell phone and took sexually explicit photos of her. After producing the

pornographic images, Hunt forced the minor victim to another location, where he forcibly

raped her again.

On February 4, 2024, law enforcement located Hunt, took him into

custody, and executed a search warrant on the hotel room he was staying in. Investigators

seized a loaded semi-automatic handgun, and approximately 71 grams of heroin.

The sentencing is the culmination of an investigation by the Rochester Police

Department, under the direction of Chief David Smith, the Monroe County Sheriff’s

Office, under the direction of Sheriff Todd Baxter, the Federal Bureau of Investigation,

under the direction of Acting Special Agent-in-Charge Mark Grimm, and the United

States Marshals Service, under the direction of Marshal Charles Salina.