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Michael Joseph Taylor
Two counts of distributing and one count of possessing child sexual abuse material
- Defendant
- Michael Joseph Taylor
- Reddit role
- user
- Charge
- Two counts of distributing and one count of possessing child sexual abuse material
- Jurisdiction
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California
- Date
- 2024-06-27
- Sentence
- 17 years 6 months federal prison plus 20 years supervised release
Summary
Michael Joseph Taylor, of Sacramento, California, was sentenced to 17.5 years in federal prison for distributing and possessing child sexual abuse material. According to court documents, in 2022 and 2023 he used Reddit and a messaging application to distribute multiple images and maintained material in cloud-storage accounts he controlled. He committed the offenses while on federal supervised release following a prior conviction for failing to register as a sex offender.
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- 02U.S. DOJ (USAO-EDCA): Recidivist Sacramento sex offender sentenced to 17.5 yearsOfficial / Reddit2024