West River Man Guilty of Child Porn Possession

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WEST RIVER, MD — A South County man has pleaded guilty to having child pornography, federal officials said, and admitted to investigators that he collected sexual images of children and had tried to inappropriately touch a boy in his home.

Sergei William Noack, 23, of West River, pleaded guilty Friday to possession of child pornography.

According to his plea agreement, on May 8, 2015, an Anne Arundel County Police Department investigator received two cybertips from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that had been received from an internet service provider.

The tips involved an individual, later determined to be Noack, who had: uploaded to his computer an image depicting two prepubescent male minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct; and, sent a photo of a prepubescent minor to another individual and said via chat that he was having sexual contact with the minor.

That same day, a search warrant was executed at Noack’s residence. He told investigators that he had thousands of images of child pornography on his computer, which he searched for and collected from the internet.

Federal authorities say Noack admitted that he likes images and videos depicting bondage. He said that he meets people online in websites and chat rooms, then moves to applications that conceal the identity of the user to trade child pornography files with those people.

Investigators reportedly found images and videos of children engaged in sexually explicit conduct on Noack's desktop computer and external hard drive. There were at least eight videos and 90 images of child pornography on the media, including numerous files that portray sadistic or masochistic conduct or other depictions of violence.

One of the videos was surreptitiously recorded by Noack and depicted a boy using the bathroom in Noack’s home. Noack told police that two to three years earlier he was alone with a prepubescent minor who was visiting his home and that he touched the child's back and stomach.

The boy told police that Noack would give him a cookie to take off his shirt and then touched him on his bare chest and stomach. When Noack attempted to put his hands under the boy’s pants, the youth moved away. In 2012, Noack sent frequent text messages to the minor, often declaring his love for the boy.

As part of his plea agreement, Noack must register as a sex offender in the place where he resides, where he is an employee, and where he is a student.

According to a plea agreement, Noack will be sentenced to at least five years in prison followed by at least 25 years of supervised release. Sentencing is schedule for June 17.

»Photo of Sergei Noack, courtesy of Anne Arundel County Police