Gwinnett Man Gets 29 Years for Child Porn, Sexual Abuse

A Gwinnett County man was sentenced to 29 years in prison for taking explicit images and abusing young boys at his Duluth residence.

Todd Alexander Pell, 44, was sentenced Monday by U.S. District Judge Steve C. Jones. The prison time will be followed by lifetime supervised release, and Pell will be required to register as a sex offender.

As part of a plea agreement, Pell also will enter a guilty plea on six counts of aggravated sodomy in Gwinnett County Superior Court.

According to information presented in court, a 14-year-old boy reported to Duluth Police in June 2013 that he had been sexually assaulted from Dec. 2012 to Feb. 2013 at Pell’s home on Bromley Rowe.

The boy was initially paid to do yard work, but Pell later began propositioning him. In late 2012, Pell took explicit photos and began sexually abusing the teen, after which he would give the boy money and take him out for meals.

Prosecutors said Pell brought older teens to his home to sexually assault the boy. Pell took photos of the assaults.

During the investigation, police found two other minors who were assaulted by Pell. Police found the child pornography on a camera and computers at Pell’s home.

“The repeated acts of sexual abuse committed by Pell are appalling” said United States Attorney Sally Quillian Yates. “We applaud the victim who had the courage to come forward and expose this abuse; he likely saved other young boys from the same fate.”