David X. Sullivan, the United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, has announced that Travis Tilley, a 41-year-old resident of Naugatuck, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley delivered the sentence in Bridgeport, which includes an additional 15 years of supervised release for possessing child sex abuse material while on state probation.
Court documents reveal that Tilley was previously convicted in 2019 in state court for risk of injury to a child and possession of child pornography. This conviction involved his sexual abuse of a five-year-old victim. After being released from state custody in August 2022, he began serving a 15-year term of probation.
On March 9, 2023, state probation officers conducted an unannounced visit to Tilley's residence where they seized his laptop and flash drive. Analysis showed that Tilley had used prohibited software to access sites with sexually explicit material and encrypted services. The analysis uncovered two videos depicting the sexual exploitation of prepubescent children and approximately 60 images of AI-generated child pornography.
Tilley has been detained since his arrest on March 28, 2023. He pleaded guilty on March 6, 2025, in federal court to possession of child pornography.
The investigation was led by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) with assistance from the Connecticut Court Support Services Division – Adult Probation Services and the Westport Police Department. Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel E. Cummings prosecuted the case with support from the Office of the State’s Attorney for the Judicial District of Waterbury.
This case is part of Project Safe Childhood Initiative by the U.S. Department of Justice aimed at protecting children from sexual abuse and exploitation.
For more information about Project Safe Childhood or to report cases of child exploitation, please visit www.justice.gov/psc or www.cybertipline.com.
