MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. (DC News Now) — The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced on Tuesday that a man from Silver Spring was sentenced to 50 years in federal prison for committing child sex abuse crimes.
U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang sentenced 28-year-old Chase William Mulligan for two counts of producing child sex abuse material in an online “sextortion” scheme. This came after he pleaded guilty to the acts in May of last year.
According to court documents, Mulligan ran the scheme between 2019 and 2023, in which he coerced at least 108 girls between the ages of 5 and 17 to send sexually explicit images of themselves to him. To pressure the victims to send more graphic content to him, he threatened to visit their homes or publicly post their images online.
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Mulligan’s activities spanned several apps, like Snapchat, Discord, Roblox, Skype, Omegle and Instagram. While most of the victims were from the United States, many were scattered across the globe in Canada, Denmark, Spain, the Philippines, Australia and the United Kingdom…