$32M Judgment Awarded In Southbury Child Sex Abuse, Pornography Litigation

SOUTHBURY, CT — A man accused of sexually assaulting a young girl for years and distributing pornographic materials of the child online has been slapped with a $32 million civil judgment against him.

In May, Superior Court Judge Ann Lynch issued the judgment against local resident Edgar Mills.

The child, identified in court documents as “Jane Doe,” sued Mills in January through her father, identified only as “John Doe.”

The $32 million award includes $27.5 million for non-economic damages, $1.5 million for economic damages, and about $3 million for attorney fees and costs.

State police arrested Mills on Dec. 18, 2024. Mills faces multiple counts, including first-degree sexual assault, fourth-degree sexual assault, first-degree possession of child pornography, risk of injury to a child, and employing a minor in an obscene performance.

Mills, 75, is currently incarcerated at MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield, being held on a $1 million bond.

Mills has entered a “not guilty” plea to all the counts against him, and he is next due to appear in Superior Court in Waterbury for the criminal case on June 18, court documents show.

The lawsuit, filed in January 2025, describes Jane Doe as a nine-year-old Woodbury resident.

The litigation claims Mills sexually assaulted the girl on multiple occasions beginning around September 2021 in a shed-like structure on his property at 215 Lum Lot Rd. in Southbury. The lawsuit asserts that Mills also created and distributed child sexual abuse material of the girl.

According to the lawsuit, the abuse continued through December 2024, when Mills was arrested.

Police arrested Mills after receiving a tip from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children that child sexual abuse material involving a female child had been put online, according to the lawsuit.

The lawsuit asserts the child has suffered severe emotional and psychological distress.

Ryan Henry, an attorney with the law firm Cramer & Anderson, who is representing the child and her father, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

It is unclear whether Mills has the financial ability to pay the $32 million judgment. No attorney is listed as representing Mills in the civil case.