Rockville Man Gets Jail Time For Producing Child Porn

GREENBELT, MD — A Rockville man was sentenced to prison Tuesday for taking pornographic photos of a young girl in his home and distributing it online, the United States Attorney's Office District of Maryland announced.

Kevin Miller, 59, was sentenced to ten years in prison with a lifetime supervised release for child pornography offenses. Miller will also have to register as a sex offender.

A man was arrested for child porn in Washington state on Dec. 2, 2016. Detectives recovered three images on the man's USB drive that geo-located to Maryland. Two of the images geo-located to Miller's home in Rockville.

As part of a plea agreement, the man told detectives that the pictures were taken in Miller's basement. The photos were of a ten-year-old girl and taken on April 9, 2016, prosectors said.

Homeland Security Investigations agents executed a search warrant at Miller's home on Dec. 22, 2016. They recovered about 36 images of child pornography and child erotica that were still viewable, prosecutors said.

"The forensic examiner also found remnants of additional files with names indicative of child pornography on both laptops, as well as remnants of a bit torrent peer-to-peer file sharing program on the laptop," a States Attorney's Office statement said.

As part of a separate investigation, a Worcester County sheriff’s deputy downloaded multiple images and videos of child pornography that Miller made available for sharing through a bit torrent peer-to-peer file sharing program on at least seventeen separate occasions between October and December 2016.

The Worcester County sheriff’s department downloaded at least 67 videos and 31 images of children engaged in sexually explicit conduct, prosecutors said.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, visit here.

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