Possession Of Child Pornography Charges Filed Against Enfield Teenager

ENFIELD, CT — A local teenager turned himself in at Enfield police headquarters Thursday morning, on a warrant charging him with multiple counts of possessing child pornography.

Steven Norman, 19, as charged with five counts of first-degree possession of child pornography and a single count of second-degree possession of child pornography. He was released on a court-set promise to appear bond, and is due in Hartford Superior Court Aug. 12.

According to a 13-page affidavit supporting Norman's arrest, police met up with him at a local bank on June 28 when he "wanted to confess to purchasing child pornography." He admitted making several purchases from a website called Discord, which he had been on for about five years.

He turned over two cell phones to police, and told officers some of the porn was on an app called Mega. He consented to a search of the digital devices, and members of the detective bureau took over the investigation, according to the affidavit.

One device contained 304 videos and more than 4,600 total files, including some depicting persons "under the age of 16 engaged in sexually explicit conduct." Chat messages on the Discord app indicated Norman engaged in an online agreement to purchase nude photos of a girl purported to be 13 years old using his PayPal and CashApp accounts, according to the affidavit.

The second cell phone contained 5,175 image files, including several videos of a girl "under the age of 10." More videos were discovered on the Mega app in the recently deleted folder, according to the affidavit.