Ex-Bucks Co. Correctional Officer Sent To Prison On Child Porn Charges

BUCKS COUNTY, PA — A former Bucks County correctional officer was sentenced last week in federal court to 100 months in prison and 10 years of supervised release for child pornography offenses.

U.S. District Judge Joel H. Slomsky also ordered Christos Sinchuk Rallis, 52, of Warrington, to pay $38,000 in restitution to the minor victims.

Rallis was charged by indictment in January 2025 with distribution of child pornography and possession of child pornography. He pleaded guilty to both charges in August.

According to court filings and statements, Rallis "actively sought out and shared images of horrific sexual abuse of children, including images depicting rape, torture, or bondage of children as young as infants."

A forensic analysis of the defendant’s devices found more than 609 videos and 249 standard images of child sexual abuse material, federal prosecutors said.

Rallis committed the offenses while employed as a Bucks County Correctional Officer, a job he held until his arrest, prosecutors said. Before relocating to Pennsylvania, he worked as a San Francisco police officer for 16 years.

The case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in 2006 by the Department of Justice.

Led by United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to better locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims.

The case was investigated by the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General and prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Ruth Mandelbaum.

For more information about Project Safe Childhood, visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov .