53-Year-Old East Windsor Man Detained On Fed Child Porn Charges

EAST WINDSOR, CT — An East Windsor man is facing major prison time as part of a federal child pornography investigation, a leading prosecutor said.

Leonard C. Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, said that 53-year-old East Windsor resident Mark Roman was arrested Monday on a federal criminal complaint charging him with production of child pornography and transportation of child pornography.

Following his arrest, Roman appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas O. Farrish in Hartford and is being detained pending a detention hearing that is scheduled for Dec. 8, Boyle said.

According to a federal complaint, law enforcement officials began investigating Roman after Yahoo! reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that Roman's email account was transmitting images of "child sexual abuse." Investigators determined that Roman’s email account also contained voyeuristic images and videos of naked children that appeared to be homemade.according tp the complaint.

On Nov. 2, state and East Windsor police executed a state search warrant at Roman's residence and seized Roman's iPhone, laptop and computer storage devices and a preliminary analysis of the seized items revealed approximately 3,000 images and videos of child pornography, including images and videos of Roman sexually abusing a girl who was between the ages of 6 and 8, and numerous voyeuristic videos that Roman secretly took of the "minor victim" and "another minor female" who was between the ages of 2 and 4, Boyle said.

Boyle added the charge of production of child pornography carries a mandatory minimum prison term of 15 years and a maximum term of imprisonment of 30 years and the charge of transportation of child pornography carries a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of five years and a maximum term of imprisonment of 20 years.