Repeat Child Porn Offender Gets 15 Years In Federal Prison

PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia man will spend 15 years in prison and another 15 years under supervised release for repeated child pornography and related offenses, federal authorities said.

United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero said Christopher Daniels, 34, of Philadelphia, was sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment, followed by 15 years of supervised release.

Daniels was charged with those violations in an August 2023 superseding indictment, and in March of this year, a federal jury convicted the defendant of all six counts against him, including receiving child pornography as a second time offender, possession of child pornography as a second time offender, access with intent to view child pornography as a second time offender, and failure to register as a sex offender, as required by the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act.

Daniels previously was convicted of possession of child pornography in federal court in 2015 and served 70 months in prison and 10 years of supervised release.

His term of supervised release commenced on Jan. 15, 2021.

Under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, he was required to keep his sex offender registration information, including his registered residential address, current. In July 2022, Daniels failed to verify his sex offender registration with Pennsylvania State Police as required and went into non-compliant status. Daniels was also found to be non-compliant with the terms of his federal supervised release, and a bench warrant was issued for his arrest.

On Nov. 3, 2022, the U.S. Marshals Service arrested Daniels and the FBI conducted a court-authorized search of his residence, seizing several electronic devices belonging to the defendant. Subsequent forensic examination of those devices found thousands of videos and images depicting child pornography and browser searches for such material.