An Alexandria, Virginia man pleaded guilty today to one
count of receipt of child pornography.
Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the
Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney G. Zachary Terwilliger of
the Eastern District of Virginia, and Assistant Director in Charge Nancy
McNamara of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, made the announcement.
Edward Thomas Parsons, 64, a former physical security
specialist with the Department of Defense, pleaded guilty today before Senior
U.S. District Judge Claude M. Hilton of the Eastern District of Virginia to
receipt of child pornography. According
to admissions made in connection with his plea, Parsons administered an online
group chat on Kik Messenger, a mobile messaging application, dedicated to
soliciting child pornography from other Kik users. Between January 2015 and August 2015, Parsons
received and distributed images and videos of child pornography from this Kik
group chat. In addition, through the
course of its investigation, law enforcement seized Parsons’s personal desktop
computer and cell phone and found hundreds of images and videos of child
pornography on the devices.
Parsons is scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 1, 2019.
FBI Washington Field Office’s Child Exploitation and Human
Trafficking Task Force is investigating the case. The Task Force is comprised of agents of the
FBI, U.S. Marshals, and detectives from the Prince William County Police,
Fairfax County Police, Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office, Metropolitan Police, Alexandria
City Police, Arlington County Police, Leesburg Police, Virginia State Police
and the Offices of Inspector General of several federal agencies. Trial Attorneys James E. Burke IV, Gwendelynn
Bills and William Clayman of the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and
Obscenity Section (CEOS) are prosecuting the case.
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