Manchester Investigation Contributes To 10-Year Child Porn Sentence

MANCHESTER, CT — Assistance from a Manchester detectives has apparently paid off with the announcement of a 10-year sentence rendered in a federal child pornography case.

Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States attorney for the District of Connecticut, said that Robert Mosley, 55, formerly of Bridgeport, was sentenced Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to 121 months in prison for "possessing and distributing numerous images depicting the sexual abuse of children."

According to court documents and statements made in court, in 2016, Mosley was convicted in Connecticut Superior Court of possession of child pornography in the second degree. He was sentenced for that offense to 10 years in jail, execution suspended after six years, and 20 years of probation.

Mosley was released on parole in November 2018.

Case records show that, on Jan. 28, 2020, Connecticut parole officers and Connecticut state troopers went to Mosley's residence and found an "unapproved smart phone," and an "approved mobile phone" that contained child pornography.

Investigators seized both phones and Mosley was remanded to custody.

Manchester Police Detectives, trained in digital investigations, assisted in the execution of a search warrant related to the case.

According yo case records, a subsequent analysis of the seized phones and a cloud storage account maintained by Mosley revealed thousands of images and hundreds of videos depicting the sexual abuse of children, primarily boys between the ages of 2 and 14. In addition, analysis of Mosley’s e-mail account revealed that he sent numerous e-mails soliciting child pornography, sent images of child pornography to others, and sent links to his cloud storage account, according to case records.

Mosley has been detained since Jan. 28, 2020. On Sept. 22, 2021, he pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography.

The penalties in this case were "enhanced based on Mosley’s criminal history," Avery said.