WASHINGTON — A 34-year-old D.C. man is heading to prison after police found his massive collection of child pornography.
A judge sentenced Morez King to 10 years in prison on Monday after nearly 10,000 images showing the sexual exploitation of very young children were found on ten different devices in his possession.
On Feb. 13, 2023, King pleaded guilty to one count of possession of child pornography. Investigators say this is his second conviction for this type of offense in less than a decade.
In addition to the 10-year prison sentence, King is ordered to serve 10 years of supervised release and to pay $88,000 in restitution to many of his child victims.
According to court documents, in January 2020, King first made contact with an undercover agent with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). King, aka “pervboi3” and “xmarcoboi,” chatted with an undercover agent over a social media app, then sent the agent graphic videos of child sexual abuse from a New Zealand-based website.
On December 15, 2021, HSI Special Agents and officers from the Metropolitan Police Department served a search warrant and subsequently searched King’s home in Northeast Washington, D.C.
During a search of the home, agents recovered two SD memory cards, four cellphones, two tablets, one laptop, and a MicroSD card reader belonging to King. Taken together, investigators say King's devices contained well over 10,000 images of child sexual abuse materials. Specifically, a Samsung Galaxy S20 held approximately 1,000 videos depicting sexual abuse. King’s Samsung Galaxy S20 phone also had the Telegram application downloaded onto it. King used that application, which allows individuals to use encryption to send messages, to trade photographs and videos depicting the abuse of children.
In addition, King’s Galaxy S9 cell phone stored approximately 8,700 images depicting child sexual abuse, while an HP laptop recovered from the home held about 1,800 videos depicting child sexual abuse.
At the time that King possessed and distributed the images described above, he already had been convicted in 2015 in Fairfax County for possession of obscene material with a minor.
More than 20 victims have filed Victim Impact Statements in this case, and 14 of the victims submitted requests for restitution with the court.
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