Georgia Man Sentenced to Over 12 Years for Possessing Child Pornography and Failing to Register as a Sex Offender

Bangor, Maine:  United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that William Curtis Oliver, 53, of Dover-Foxcroft, Maine and formerly of Dougherty County, Georgia, was sentenced today in U.S. District by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 151 months in prison and 20 years of supervised release for possessing child pornography and failing to register as a sex offender.  Oliver pleaded guilty to failing to register as a sex offender on December 13, 2016; he pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on June 8, 2017.

Court records reveal that in January 2016, a detective with the Rosenberg, Texas police department who was affiliated with the Houston Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, was monitoring certain internet sites.  The detective was working in an undercover capacity and posing as a 14-year-old female child (“UC”).  On January 27, 2016, the defendant wrote to the UC about traveling from Maine to see the UC and have sex.  Over the next few weeks, the defendant sent several text messages to the UC.  On about February 2, 2016, the defendant sent several images of prepubescent girls engaged in sexually explicit conduct to the UC. 

The defendant has been in custody since his arrest on September 15, 2016, following a related investigation by federal and state authorities that revealed that the defendant had been convicted of child molestation in Georgia and had moved to Maine in December 2015 without complying with federal sex offender registry requirements. 

In imposing sentence, Judge Woodcock said: “The need to protect the public from this defendant is clear.” 

The investigation was conducted by the Rosenberg, Texas Police Department; the United States Marshal’s Service; Immigration and Customs Enforcement-Homeland Security Investigations; the U.S. Marshal’s Service, and the Dover-Foxcroft Police Department.