Maryland man gets 420 years in prison for filming himself sexually abusing 3 toddlers

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Greenbelt, Maryland – U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang today sentenced Kyle Stephen Thompson, age 33, of Burtonsville, Maryland, to 420 years in federal prison concurrent to the state sentence to be imposed, and lifetime supervised release for his conviction on 18 counts of production of child pornography, involving videos documenting Thompson’s sexual abuse of three young girls, aged 2 to 4. On September 13, 2018, the federal jury who heard the evidence during his three-day trial returned its guilty verdict on each of the 18 counts after deliberating less than 30 minutes.

U.S. Attorney Robert K. Hur stated, “Kyle Thompson’s horrific sexual assaults on young girls would not have stopped without the work of the prosecutors, law enforcement agents, and witnesses in this case. Today’s sentence is a result of their efforts and ensures that Thompson will never be able to abuse a child again.”

According to the evidence presented at his trial and at today’s sentencing hearing, from May 9, 2015, to January 28, 2017, Thompson sexually assaulted three young girls, each of whom were between two and four years of age at the time of the abuse, in order to produce visual depictions documenting the abuse. Witnesses testified that on March 17, 2017, law enforcement executed a search warrant at Thompson’s residence and recovered a Secure Digital (SD) memory card hidden in the laundry room. During a preliminary on-scene forensic preview of the SD card, law enforcement saw a video depicting child pornography. According to trial testimony, subsequent forensic analysis of the SD card revealed 18 videos of Thompson sexually abusing the three young girls.

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