DAYTON – Brendan J. Eardly, 48, of Troy, Ohio pleaded guilty
to producing child pornography by enticing at least seven juvenile males in
Ohio and elsewhere to engage in explicit sexual conduct for the purpose of
producing pornographic videos.
Eardly also pleaded guilty to committing a felony as a
registered sex offender. He faces at least 15 years in prison for producing the
child pornography and at least an additional ten years for committing a felony
as a registered sex offender.
According to court documents, Eardly set up accounts on
multiple social media platforms and communicated with more than 60 juveniles
around the world, offering to provide them with advice about sex. Eardly sent
some of them sexually explicit videos of himself and pornographic videos of
other men engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
Eardly pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Walter H.
Rice on November 14. Eardly was ordered held in custody until sentencing, which
is scheduled for March 16, 2020.
Terms of the plea agreement include a requirement that
Eardly forfeit the computer, cell phones and computer storage media including
17 CD’s, an external hard drive and three thumb drives he used to commit the
crimes.
At the time he committed the crimes, he was required to
register as a sex offender due to a case in Miami County in 2004.
David M. DeVillers, United States Attorney for the Southern
District of Ohio, Joseph Deters, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau
of Investigation (FBI), Cincinnati Division, Troy Police Chief Charles Phelps,
and the Bureau of Criminal Investigation in Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost’s
office announced the sentence. Assistant United States Attorney SaMee Harden is
representing the United States in this case.
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