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Nov 02, 2023

Crime Briefs: 3 Massachusetts men in federal court in separate child pornography cases

A 51-year-old Quincy man who lives in his parents’ basement has pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography. Matthew Orman, 51, stored his child pornography in a folder labeled “hc” within a

A 51-year-old Quincy man who lives in his parents’ basement has pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography.

Matthew Orman, 51, stored his child pornography in a folder labeled “hc” within a network drive named “The_Castle.” From this hard drive connected to his local area network, he was able to stream data, including the 401 video files across 114 gigabytes of data included in the filthy folder, according to an FBI affidavit filed in the case.

Three of the files within the folder are described in the document as representative, all of which depict young girls between the ages of 4 and 7 years old being coerced to perform sex acts on adult men. He watched these films on two custom-built PCs in his basement room, which the affidavit states was strewn with sex toys.

Orman was charged in April and entered into a plea agreement on Wednesday that recommends prison time of five years to be followed by five years of supervised release. The judge can choose to sentence him to a maximum term of 20 years in prison.

Larry Stephen, 44, of Marlboro, was arrested Tuesday and charged with one count of receipt, distribution, and possession of child pornography, which he allegedly traded on an undisclosed social media app, according to a law enforcement affidavit filed in the federal case.

Officers with Marlboro Police and MBTA Transit Police — which included an officer who knows American Sign Language, which is what Stephen uses to communicate — executed a search warrant on Stephen’s Crosby Road home at roughly 6 a.m. on June 7, during which Stephen, his wife and his daughter were present.

During this search, officers confiscated his iPhone 13 and asked him about his involvement on social media groups that included one called “Family taboo” and others with names the Herald can’t print, one of which is about incest, on which they allege he was trading videos with others that included the physical rape of young children, according to the police affidavit.

Stephen refuted his involvement, the affidavit states, though he repeatedly says he can’t explain why it clearly looks like he was participating. He said someone had added him to the “Family taboo” and that he left when he saw they were trading child pornography. Officers say that he had both shared his own content and given “thumbs up” reactions to others’ content.

A Royalston man used the public wi-fi of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Leeds, where he worked as a nurse, to trade child pornography, a decision that just landed him eight years in federal prison.

Springfield federal Judge Mark G. Mastroianni sentenced Kevin Divoll, 51, to eight years in prison, a term agreed to by both defense and prosecution in the case, for charges of distribution and possession of child pornography. Divoll pleaded guilty to the charges on April 24.

“The seriousness of the Defendant’s crimes cannot be understated,” wrote prosecutor Catherine Curley in a July 17 sentencing memo. “Not only do these victims suffer the abuse itself, but they must live with the knowledge that images of that abuse are being disseminated for the sexual gratification of strangers.”

Divoll, according to court documents, was using the VA Medical Center’s public, unencrypted wi-fi network from May 2022 through July 2022. An affidavit filed with the complaint said that investigators in May 2022 identified a torrent file being distributed on a peer-to-peer file sharing network that, among its 4,099 files, included at least one “known file of investigative interest to child pornography investigations,” being distributed from a static IP address used by the facility.

The hundreds of files located on his laptop and an external hard drive attached to it included at least one image of the penetrative rape of a toddler, as well as other very extreme pornographic images.

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