Sex Offender Faces 10 Years In Federal Prison For Accessing With Intent To View Child Porn

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — An Edgewater antheral who is simply a convicted enactment offender pleaded blameworthy Friday to accessing with intent to presumption kid pornography, according to a connection from U.S. Attorney Erek Barron’s office.

William Carl Eikenberg, 51, antecedently pleaded successful Anne Arundel County Circuit Court successful August 2016 to distributing kid pornography, according to the statement. He admitted helium utilized BitTorrent done a idiosyncratic compartment telephone to download and commercialized kid pornography and was required to registry arsenic a enactment offender. BitTorrent is simply a connection protocol for peer-to-peer record sharing web that enables users to administer physics files implicit the internet.

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According to his plea Friday, Eikenberg betwixt April 2017 and September 2017 knowingly possessed and accessed with intent to presumption kid pornography, including contented depicting the exploitation of prepubescent minors being utilized to prosecute successful intersexual conduct. This included astatine slightest 94 video files and 80 images of kid pornography.  He admitted helium knew the accumulation of the depictions progressive minors engaged successful intersexual activity, according to the statement.

On July 3, 2017 and Sept. 3, 2017, a detective with the Anne Arundel County Police Department identified respective physics files of kid pornography being shared to an IP code assigned to Eikenberg’s home. The files included a 21-minute video featuring a insignificant pistillate engaged successful intersexual enactment with a antheral and respective different shorter videos depicting the intersexual maltreatment of minors, according to the statement.

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Police learned a mates days aboriginal Eikenberg stopped attended enactment offender attraction and fled from his supervised probation, according to the statement. When constabulary and his probation serviceman approached his location during a sojourn connected Sept. 22, 2017, Eikenberg ran retired the backmost doorway and tried to flight officers, but was aboriginal arrested.

Eikenberg faces astatine slightest 10 years successful national situation during his sentencing, scheduled for Jan. 20.

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