Mount Rainier Man Sentenced For Producing Child Porn With Kids Younger Than 11: Prosecutor

PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, MD — A 57-year-old Mount Rainier man has been sentenced to 32 years in federal prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release for production of child pornography.

Carl Gage Linden also has been ordered to pay a special assessment of $200 and upon his release from prison must register as a sex offender wherever he lives, where he works and wherever he may be a student per the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act. Linden also was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $25,401 to the victims.

According to his guilty plea, Linden was arrested Nov. 12, 2020, on charges of second-degree assault and third- and fourth-degree sexual offenses after Victim 1 found sexually explicit photos of herself on Linden’s phone. A subsequent forensic analysis of Linden’s laptop and cellular phone revealed dozens of videos, photos and images depicting the sexual abuse of Victim 1 and Victim 2, when the victims were between seven and 11 years old.

As required by his plea agreement on the federal charges on Nov. 30, 2022, Linden also pleaded guilty to related sex abuse charges in Prince George’s County Circuit Court. Linden is scheduled to be sentenced in that case March 22.