Milford Man Charged With Receiving Child Porn: Feds

MILFORD, CT — A Milford man faces a federal child pornography charge after authorities said he received child sex abuse images to his computer. Robert C. Harrington, 53, of , Depot Road was indicted by a federal grand jury in New Haven Wednesday, charging him with receipt of child pornography, U.S. States Attorney for Connecticut John H. Durham announced.

Federal authorities received information from Australian and Canadian law enforcement in January 2019 that two usernames associated with an IP address at Harrington’s Milford residence were “sending and receiving images depicting the sexual abuse of girls through a web-based application,” according to a news release.

Investigators searched Harrington’s residence on May 15, 2019, and seized his tablet computer. The tablet contained images and videos depicting child sex abuse, officials said. He has been detained since his arrest on May 15.

The indictment charges Harrington with one count of receipt of child pornography, an offense that carries a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of five years and a maximum term of imprisonment of 20 years, according to officials.

The prosecution is part of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Project Safe Childhood Initiative, which is aimed at protecting children from sexual abuse and exploitation. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, visit here. To report cases of child exploitation, visit here.