CHARLESTON, W.Va. – William Lawrence Bryant, 32, of Fayetteville, pleaded responsible right this moment to sexual exploitation of a minor and distribution of kid pornography.
In response to court docket paperwork and statements made in court docket, on April 1, 2022, regulation enforcement officers executed a search warrant at Bryant’s Fayetteville residence and seized a number of digital media units together with computer systems, cell telephones, and exterior exhausting drives. Bryant informed the officers that he downloaded and distributed little one pornography on varied web platforms and web sites from roughly 2017 till March 1, 2021. Bryant admitted that the digital media units had been his and contained photos and movies displaying prepubescent minor male kids subjected to sexually express conduct. Bryant additional admitted that the kid pornography he possessed included a video of a male toddler being sexually assaulted by an grownup male.
Officers discovered {a photograph} on one of many cell telephones depicting Bryant bare with a minor male little one who was asleep and in underwear. Bryant admitted to taking the {photograph} and additional admitted that the minor male little one was youthful than 12 years outdated.
Bryant is scheduled to be sentenced on March 22, 2023, and faces a compulsory minimal of 15 years and as much as 50 years in jail, 5 years and as much as a lifetime of supervised launch, and a $500,000 high quality.
United States Lawyer Will Thompson made the announcement and counseled the investigative work of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Violent Crimes Towards Youngsters Job Drive, the West Virginia State Police, and the FBI Baltimore area workplace.
Senior United States District Decide John T. Copenhaver, Jr., presided over the listening to. Assistant United States Lawyer Ryan A. Keefe is prosecuting the case.
This case was prosecuted as a part of Undertaking Protected Childhood, a nationwide initiative of the Division of Justice to fight the rising epidemic of kid sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by america Lawyer’s Workplaces and the Legal Division’s Little one Exploitation and Obscenity Part, Undertaking Protected Childhood marshals federal, state, and native assets to find, apprehend, and prosecute those that sexually exploit kids, and to determine and rescue victims. For extra details about Undertaking Protected Childhood, please go to www.justice.gov/psc.
A duplicate of this press launch is situated on the web site of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of West Virginia. Associated court docket paperwork and knowledge may be discovered on PACER by looking for Case No. 2:22-cr-112.
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