Aston man indicted for manufacturing child porn
PHILADELPHIA >> An Aston man was indicted by a federal grand jury and charged with five counts of manufacturing child pornography, two counts of receipt of child pornography, and one count of possession of child pornography, U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced Thursday.
The federal indictment charges Charles Orlando, 41, of the 2900 block of Concord Road, with manufacturing sexually explicit images involving two minor girls, and with receiving and possessing an additional 1,300 pornographic images of children on the Internet. The indictment charges the defendant with committing these crimes since 2011.
“Manufacturing child pornography is one of the most serious charges that my office pursues,” McSwain said in a prepared release. “We will continue to work with our law enforcement partners to stop child exploitation, as these types of crimes affect our youngest and most vulnerable members of the community.”
Delaware County District Attorney Katayoun Copeland previously described Orlando’s alleged actions involving the sexual abuse of two children through the creation of child pornography as “inconceivable, deplorable and abhorrent.”
If convicted, Orlando faces a statutory maximum sentence of 210 years behind bars, a 15-year mandatory minimum sentence of imprisonment, five years up to a lifetime of supervised release, a $2 million fine, an $800 special assessment, and, if found not to be indigent, an additional $15,000 special assessment.
The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in conjunction with the Delaware County District Attorney’s Office and the Internet Crimes Against Children Unit. It is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Michelle Rotella.