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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Harrisburg, PA) Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday announced that a Pennsylvania State Police Corporal was sentenced to time in jail for a wide range of criminal conduct, which included using work computers to access A.I. tools to create pornography and for secretly filming and photographing individuals, and this included coworkers.
Forty-year-old Stephen M. Kamnik pleaded guilty to 14 charges in all against him.
These were nine felonies and five misdemeanors and they included official oppression, receiving stolen property, sexual abuse of children and unlawful use of a computer.
A Montgomery County Judge sentenced Kamnik to 5 to 10 years in jail, followed by seven years of probation and deemed Kamnik a “sexually violent predator” yesterday, which means that Kamnik must register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.
Kamnik was also sentenced for using secured law enforcement and Commonwealth databases for possessing child sexual abuse material and for personal reasons.
According to the investigation, Kamnik created some of the material at Montgomery County barracks, on Commonwealth-owned devices.
An investigation conducted by the Internal Affairs Division of the Pennsylvania State Police and the Office of Attorney General revealed that Kamnik allegedly misused Commonwealth computer resources for his own personal sexual gratification for years, which included the creation of A.I.-generated pornography of numerous female citizens of Pennsylvania.
Kamnik’s cellphone and an external hard drive from his home revealed evidence that he also used a secured database, JNET, to obtain hundreds of photographs of women, which is in violation of JNET usage policies.
Among the materials that investigators found was an unlawfully recorded video of a Montgomery County magisterial district judge during a court proceeding, which Kamnik also edited for apparent lewd purposes.
Kamnik was also found possessing a stolen .22 caliber firearm during a search of his vehicle in January of 2025.
According to a release courtesy of the Pennsylvania General’s Office, Kamnik pleaded guilty to these charges in all:
- Four felony counts of unlawful use of computer
- Sexual abuse of children, a felony
- Receiving Stolen Property (regarding a firearm), a felony
- Unlawful duplication, a felony
- Interception, disclosure or use of wire, electronic or oral communications, a felony
- Criminal trespass, a felony
- Misdemeanor counts of invasion of privacy, official oppression, tampering with evidence, misapplication of entrusted property, and unlawful use of an audio or video device in court
This case was prosecuted by the Office of Attorney General’s Public Corruption and Child Predator Sections.