Casselberry man gets 170 years

A Casselberry man who took and shared sexually explicit photos of children was sentenced to 170 years in federal prison, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. George Poulo, 27, spoke about sexually abusing children in online messages with undercover law enforcement officers, officials said Thursday. He sent officers a video of an adult man sexually abusing another child and five photographs of a young girl watching him masturbate.

“I want her to touch it so bad,” he texted. “How should I do it?”

The images were shared to a group called “breeding no age limits” on the messaging app Kik, investigators said. An officer asked Poulo if he was active with any “pretty young thangs,” to which Poulo responded yes; a 5-year-old girl.

He told undercover officers he wanted to have sex with other children as well, the DOJ said, including his 12-year-old niece. He said he had sexually abused a 9-year-old girl he used to babysit, too, a claim he later denied in interviews with investigators.

Poulo sent the officers a pornographic video just 20 minutes before they descended on his Casselberry home with a search warrant, records show.

A judge found Poulo guilty in September of abusing children from the summer of 2019 until February 2020.

“No amount of prison time can erase what this monster did to a young, innocent child,” said FBI agent Michael McPherson, adding that the 170-year prison sentence demonstrates law enforcement’s commitment to finding and removing predators.