Jacksonville, Florida – United States Attorney Maria Chapa
Lopez announces that Colum Patrick Moran, Jr. (40, Jacksonville) has been
arrested and charged by federal criminal complaint with soliciting child
pornography using the internet. If convicted, Moran faces a minimum mandatory
penalty of 15 years, and up to 30 years, in federal prison. Moran was arrested on
March 6, 2019, and is currently detained.
According to the complaint, from on or about December 28,
2016, through October 31, 2018, Moran, using the name “Emily lover” and the
email address emilylover@aol.com, made numerous postings to several internet blog
websites hosted by mothers. These blog sites were designed and intended to
share and exchange information about motherhood, raising children, and other
related topics. Moran repeatedly posted
sexually explicit comments about young children on these motherhood blogs and
also solicited others to produce and post sexually explicit photos and videos
of children on the blog sites.
On March 6, 2019, FBI agents and other officers executed a
search warrant at Moran’s apartment where Moran lived alone. The agents found a
plastic storage bin containing at least 50 pairs of female child-sized
underwear, a smart phone containing over 300 images depicting child
pornography, a number of credit cards and Florida driver licenses that did not
belong to Moran, and several firearms and a bulletproof vest. Moran was placed
under arrest.
This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation in Jacksonville and Los Angeles, and the Jacksonville Sheriff’s
Office, with assistance from the National Center for Missing and Exploited
Children (NCMEC). It is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney D.
Rodney Brown.
A criminal complaint is merely an allegation that a
defendant has committed one or more violations of federal criminal law, and
every defendant is presumed innocent unless, and until, proven guilty.
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