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Former Firefighter Gets 16 Years for Child Pornography
A former Baltimore County firefighter has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for producing and possessing child pornography, authorities announced.
Baltimore – U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Anthony Maurice Cottle, 24, of Owings Mills, Maryland, to 195 months in prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release for sexual exploitation of a minor to produce child pornography and to possession of child pornography.
According to his plea agreement, in June and July 2012, Cottle, a former firefighter with the Baltimore County Fire Department, sexually abused two minor males to produce visual depictions of the abuse, including two videos. Cottle produced one video that depicts the genitalia of a minor male and Cottle performing sex acts on the boy. Cottle produced a second video depicting the genitalia of another minor male.
More than 600 images of child pornography were recovered from Cottle’s computer and cell phone. In addition to the videos produced by Cottle, images of several other child victims whom Cottle solicited to send him photos of their genitals, were found. Cottle admitted that on some occasions he used video chat to capture the image live, and on other occasions the minor would send a photograph by cell phone.
U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein commended HSI Baltimore, the FBI, Baltimore County Police Department, Baltimore Police Department and Baltimore County State’s Attorney’s Office for their work in the investigation and prosecution. U.S. Attorney Rosenstein also recognized the Baltimore County Fire Department for its assistance in this case.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Ayn B. Ducao prosecuted the case. The sentence was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein; Special Agent in Charge William Winter of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI); Special Agent in Charge Stephen E. Vogt of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; Chief James W. Johnson of the Baltimore County Police Department; Commissioner Anthony W. Batts of the Baltimore Police Department; and Baltimore County State’s Attorney Scott Shellenberger.
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. Led by the United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims.
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Key Facts
- State: Maryland
- Category: Sex Crimes|Cybercrime
- Source: DOJ Press Release ↗
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