Oxon Hill Man Sentenced For Producing Child Porn: Prosecutor

PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, MD — A 24-year-old Oxon Hill man has been sentenced for his involvement in a child pornography case.

According to court documents and information presented at the sentencing hearing, on April 1, 2019, a victim contacted the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and reported that an Instagram user with the username “darealrico_”, later identified as Adrian Nathaniel Haynes, had demanded that the victim send images and videos of the victim engaged in sexually explicit conduct to him over the internet via direct share to darealrico_.

The victim also disclosed to officials that darealrico_ threatened the victim that if they did not continue to produce images of them engaged in sexually explicit conduct, darealrico_ would expose the victim by publishing the previously produced images and videos online, officials stated.

Special agents with the FBI determined that the darealrico_ Instagram account was registered on Nov. 6, 2018, to a phone number matching one that Haynes had provided to law enforcement before. Officials also determined that many of the communications from this account during the relevant period were coming from Haynes’ residence in Prince George’s County. A search warrant was obtained for the contents of the Instagram account associated with darealrico_, court documents stated.

Special agents with the FBI uncovered communications from Haynes to the victim on Nov. 12, 2018, and on multiple other dates, in which Haynes directed the victim to produce videos of the victim engaged in sexually explicit conduct and send the produced child sexual abuse material to Haynes. On Nov. 12, 2018, while communicating via the derealrico_ account, Haynes falsely denied to the victim that his name was Adrian, falsely told the victim that he was 15 years old and falsely identified himself to the victim by using a fictitious name, all in an effort to convince the victim to continue producing child pornography and to thwart the victim's efforts to identify him, court documents showed.

Law enforcement’s review of Haynes’s Instagram account revealed communications with 16 other Instagram users who self-identified as minors and sent child sexual abuse material to Haynes after he asked them to. Haynes used a similar method for each, asking the user how old they were, confirming that they were a minor, then coercing the user into producing child sexual abuse material in the manner requested by Haynes, officials disclosed.

Haynes has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison followed by 25 years supervised release for production of child pornography. The judge also ordered that, upon his release from prison, Haynes must register as a sex offender in the places where he resides, where he is an employee and where he is a student, under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act.