Scarborough Man Sentenced for Possessing Child Pornography

PORTLAND, Maine: A Scarborough man was sentenced on November 9, 2026, in U.S. District Court in Portland for possessing child pornography.

U.S. District Judge Stacey D. Neumann sentenced Robert E. Milholland, Jr., 49, to 12 months and one day in prison to be followed by five years of supervised release. Judge Neumann also ordered Milholland to pay $18,000 in restitution to victims whose images he possessed. Milholland pleaded guilty on March 31, 2026.

According to court records, Milholland became the target of a law enforcement investigation after being linked to child sexual abuse material over the BitTorrent peer-to-peer file-sharing network. In July 2025, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) investigators executed a search warrant at his residence, resulting in the seizure of multiple digital media devices that contained child sexual abuse material. 

HSI investigated the case.

To report an incident involving the possession, distribution, receipt or production of child sexual abuse material: Child sexual abuse material – referred to in legal terms as "child pornography" – captures the sexual abuse and exploitation of children. These images document victims’ exploitation and abuse, and they suffer revictimization every time the images are viewed. In 2023, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children received 36 million reports of the possession, manufacture, or distribution of child sexual abuse materials. To file a report with NCMEC, go to https://report.cybertip.org or call 1-800-843-5678. If you are in Maine and you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted or abused, you can get help by calling the free, private 24-hour statewide sexual assault helpline at 1-800-871-7741.

Project Safe Childhood: This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and the Department’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, visit https://www.justice.gov/usao-me/psc.