[28] May 23, 2014
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Felon sentenced to 20 years for producing child porn found in Federal Way home BY RAECHEL DAWSON rdawson@federalwaymirror.com
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SeaTac man was sentenced to 20 years today for producing child pornography that was found in a Federal Way residence and for possessing firearms. Steven Maurice Williams,
43, was sentenced at U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington in Seattle by Judge Robert S. Lasnik after Williams, a previously convicted felon, pleaded guilty to the charges in February. Federal Way police first learned of the crimes in Au-
gust 2013 after Williams’s ex-girlfriend and their son found pornographic images of a then-10-year-old girl on his camera’s memory card at their Federal Way residence. Williams’s son had asked to use the memory card so that he could save a video
game but instead found 76 images of the girl asleep in her bed and being touched and photographed by his father, according to court documents. After telling his mom, Williams’s ex-girlfriend contacted the girl’s mother who confirmed that it was,
in fact, her daughter and was more. the photos had been taken In an interview with in her bedroom in Bonney Williams’s ex, chargLake. ing documents state the Federal Way police and a reason Williams and his special agent with the U.S. ex-girlfriend broke up was Secret Service and membecause he “knocked up a ber of the Seattle Internet 12-year-old.” Crimes Against Children His ex-girlfriend alleged task force worked together he used to sell crackin the investigation, which cocaine at a Des Moines led them to discover the apartment complex in 2000. girl’s mother had helped During this time, he would Williams, a convicted burdeal drugs to a 14-year-old glar, move two guns, several girl who would have sex video cameras and memory with him in exchange for cards, some of which was crack-cocaine. When his known to be pornography, ex-girlfriend found out, she to a storage unit in Auburn. went through his belong“[The girl’s mother] ings and found photos of said she is in some of the the girl in see-through pornography, but does lingerie, engaged in not know what else sexual acts with FEDERAL WAY Williams, the docuit is comprised of because Williams is ments continue. The secretive about it,” ex then retaliated by the documents state. posting the photos The special agent on the girl’s front door and Federal Way police obof her apartment. tained a search warrant on According to chargthe storage unit that same ing documents, the girl day and took a safe, three remembers engaging in sex digital video cameras, mulwith Williams but does not tiple 8mm cassette tapes, remember being photomultiple photo albums, graphed. film, items of domination Police eventually opened and control, VHS tapes, the safe and found a handDVDs, mini VHS tapes and gun and a revolver, both multiple SD memory cards. loaded, and the photos of Police found Williams at the 14-year-old girl and his mother’s house where Williams together. he agreed to speak. In the Investigators were able interview, Williams told to match the hands in the police he didn’t want to talk photos to Williams’s, as about the images on the there were distinctive scars memory card but admitted and freckles. that he owned firearms, Because the memory despite knowing he wasn’t card was manufactured in allowed to posses them. He Taiwan, and the handguns stated that “Someone was were also manufactured out getting rid of them so I put of state - all three had to them in the safe a while ago travel in foreign and posand forgot about them,” the sibly interstate commerce documents continue. - Williams’s charges were Williams has been in filed in federal court. trouble before for possessWilliams originally ing guns while on probapleaded not guilty in Seption for a prior offense, tember 2013 and was iniaccording to charging tially charged with possesdocuments. sion of child pornography Police then took photos but the court dismissed the of Williams’s hands before count in a plea agreement. stating they were concerned After Williams is released for the welfare of the girl, from prison, he’ll be under who was now 11 years old. supervised release for 15 “Williams replied, ‘I don’t years and will be ordered want to talk about that to register as a sex offender. without a lawyer, but I have Williams will forfeit his seen her a bunch of times guns, all images of child since those pictures and she pornography and upon is fine.’” release from prison will still A few days later, the be unauthorized to possess special agent learned there firearms.
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