Bangor, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that William Curtis Oliver, 53, of Dover-Foxcroft, Maine, and formerly of Dougherty County, Georgia, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to possessing child pornography.
Court records reveal that in January 2016, a detective with the Rosenberg, Texas police department, who was affiliated with the Houston Metro 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 Jan. 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 Feb. 2, 2016, the defendant, using his cellular telephone, sent several images of prepubescent girls engaged in sexually explicit conduct to the UC.
defendant has been in custody since his arrest on Sept. 15, 2016 following a related investigation by federal and state authorities that revealed that, in 2012, 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. On Dec. 13, 2016, Oliver pleaded guilty to having failed to register as a sex offender.
Oliver faces up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine on the child pornography charge. Because of his child molestation conviction, he may face a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years in prison. The defendant will be sentenced after the completion of a presentence investigation report by the U.S. Probation Office.
The investigation was conducted by the Rosenberg, Texas Police Department; Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations, the U.S. Marshal’s Service and the Dover-Foxcroft Police Department.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
