East Windsor Man Receives Lengthy Prison Term For Child Sex Offenses

HARTFORD, CT — An East Windsor resident who pleaded guilty in January to production and possession of child pornography was sentenced Wednesday to a lengthy prison term by a federal judge.

Mark Roman, 54, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 400 months of imprisonment, followed by a lifetime term of supervised release, for recording his repeated sexual abuse of a minor, according to Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut.

According to court documents and statements made in court, law enforcement began investigating Roman after the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) received a report 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, Avery said.

On Nov. 2, 2021, the Connecticut State Police and East Windsor Police Department executed a state search warrant at Roman’s residence and seized his iPhone, laptop and computer storage devices. Analysis of the items revealed more than 1,000 images and videos depicting the sexual abuse of children, including images and videos of Roman sexually abusing a girl who was between the ages of six and eight. The seized images also included numerous voyeuristic videos that Roman secretly took of the minor victim, another minor female who was between the ages of two and four, and adult victims, Avery said.

Roman has been detained since his arrest on Nov. 29, 2021.