Carroll County Twins Sentenced To Federal Prison For Possession Of Child Pornography

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A justice connected Friday sentenced 2 Carroll County twins to national situation for possession of kid pornography, the Maryland U.S. Attorney’s Office said.

Hampstead residents Matthew Curtis and Tyler Curtis, ages 24, received 10-year sentences, followed by 18 years and 17 years of supervised release, respectively.

Both Curtis brothers were convicted successful 2017 of kid pornography-related charges successful the Circuit Court of Carroll County, prosecutors said.

Matthew Curtis was sentenced to 1 twelvemonth and six months successful situation and 3 years’ probation aft being convicted of possession of kid pornography. He had to registry arsenic a enactment offender upon his release.

Tyler Curtis was antecedently convicted of the promotion and organisation of kid pornography and had to registry arsenic a enactment offender.

“Thankfully, the Curtis brothers volition walk the adjacent decennary successful national situation for their extended and disturbing conduct.” stated United States Attorney for the District of Maryland, Erek L. Barron. “This bureau volition proceed to aggressively support our children and relentlessly prosecute those who perpetuate kid exploitation.”

Matthew Curtis pleaded blameworthy connected Aug. 24 and admitted that, betwixt November 2019 and May 2020, helium downloaded “depictions of prepubescent minors engaging successful sexually explicit conduct” and distributed them online.

While executing a hunt warrant, authorities seized 2 of Matthew Curtis’ compartment phones. Investigators aboriginal recovered 429 images and 129 videos of kid pornography connected the devices, prosecutors said.

Tyler Curtis told investigators helium had not looked astatine kid pornography pursuing his condemnation and did not person a compartment phone, but authorities recovered a telephone astatine the bottommost of his dresser, prosecutors said.

There were 115 images and 137 videos of kid pornography connected the phone, prosecutors said, including immoderate “images of prepubescent females engaged successful intersexual acts with big men” and astatine slightest 2 videos of infants being sexually abused, prosecutors said.

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Authorities aboriginal accessed a hosting work relationship belonging to Tyler Curtis with 185 images and 10 videos of kid pornography uploaded online.