Previously Convicted Sex Offender Sentenced to 120 Months for Possessing 10,000 Images of Child Pornography

                  WASHINGTON – Morez King, 34, of Washington D.C, was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for amassing an enormous collection of child pornography on 10 different devices that held 10,000 images depicting the sexual exploitation of very young children, announced U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves and Special Agent in Charge Derek W. Gordon of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Washington, D.C.

            King pleaded guilty on February 13, 2023, to one count of possession of child pornography, his second conviction for this offense in less than a decade. In addition to the 10 year prison sentence, U.S. District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras ordered King to serve 10 years of supervised release and to pay $88,000 in restitution to many of his child victims.

            According to court documents, King first made contact with an undercover agent with Homeland Security Investigations in January 2020. 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 (MPDC) served a search warrant and subsequently searched King’s residence in Northeast Washington D.C. In the home, agents recovered two SD memory cards, four cellular telephones, two tablets, one laptop, and a MicroSD card reader belonging to King. Taken together, the defendant’s devices contained well over 10,000 images of child sexual abuse materials. Specifically, a Samsung Galaxy S20 held approximately 1,000 videos depicting the 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. Further, King’s Galaxy S9 cell phone stored approximately 8,700 images depicting child sexual abuse, while an HP laptop recovered from the residence 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, VA, 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.

            This case was investigated by Homeland Security Investigations, Washington, DC. It was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Jocelyn Bond and Janani Iyengar, with valuable assistance from the Metropolitan Police Department.