Kaziah Matthew White, a 33-year-old resident of Long Lake, New York, has been sentenced to 87 months in prison for distributing child pornography. The sentence was delivered by U.S. District Court Judge Dabney L. Friedrich following White's guilty plea on December 18, 2024, to one count of distribution of child pornography.
The announcement came from U.S. Attorney Edward R. Martin Jr., FBI Special Agent in Charge Sean Ryan of the Washington Field Office Criminal and Cyber Division, and Chief Pamela Smith of the Metropolitan Police Department. In addition to his prison term, White is required to serve a lifetime term of supervised release.
Court documents revealed that on March 21, 2024, an undercover officer with the FBI Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force was monitoring an online dating application when contacted by a user named "EarthenFireMD." This user expressed interest in meeting with what he believed to be a 10-year-old boy. The individual was later identified as Kaziah Matthew White.
White engaged in conversation with the undercover officer through messaging applications, expressing interest in meeting and planning activities involving minors aged between five and fourteen years old. Over several days in March 2024, he sent more than 100 videos depicting child sexual abuse to the officer.
On March 28, 2024, White traveled from Clarksville, Maryland to Washington D.C., intending to meet with the undercover officer while carrying Spiderman-themed underwear as previously mentioned during their exchanges. Upon arrival at the arranged location, he was arrested.
This case is part of Project Safe Childhood—a nationwide initiative launched by the Department of Justice aimed at combating child sexual exploitation and abuse online. It involves collaboration among federal, state, and local resources for locating offenders and rescuing victims.
The investigation was conducted by the FBI-MPD Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force with prosecution led by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jocelyn Bond.
