100 Years Behind Bars For Chesco Serial Child Predator: U.S. Attorney

PHILADELPHIA, PA - A 60-year-old Chester County man was sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court to 100 years in prison after pleading guilty to multiple child exploitation offenses including producing, transmitting, and collecting child pornography.

United States District Court Judge Gerald Pappert imposed the sentence requested by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Erica Kivitz and Kelly Harrell for Robert Dean Caesar of Oxford, Chester County.

Caesar’s lawyer, Stephen P. Patrizio requested a sentence of 20 to 70 years, the same sentence he is already serving after being convicted in Chester County Court of sex offenses involving the same victims.

Chester County Judge Jacqueline C. Cody sentenced Caesar on Aug. 28, after he was convicted of sex offenses involving the two brothers.

According to court records:

• Chester County law enforcement began investigating Caesar in July 2017 after learning he was purchasing large amounts of underwear to see if they would fit his children.
• Six months later, two teenage brothers came forward to say he had abused them when they were 14 and 16 and doing yard work at his home.
• The victims told police Caesar would give them alcohol and sexually assault them.
• The defendant also used a cell phone to take sexually explicit photos of the victims.
• During a search of Caesar’s residents police found a massive collection of child pornography, amounting to tens of thousands of images and videos, including ones of the brothers.

U.S. Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero said Caesar committed unspeakable, horrific acts, abusing unknown numbers of children until he got to these two victims, these brothers, and destroyed their entire lives.

“It is our duty to protect the most vulnerable members of society, and together with our law enforcement partners we will continue to uphold that duty by bringing to justice anybody who preys upon minor children,” Romero said.

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

More information about Project Safe Childhood is available at www.projectsafechildhood.gov.