A Sweet Home man has been sentenced to just over nine years in prison after pleading guilty to 10 counts of first-degree encouraging child sexual abuse.
William Tyler Paul Maze, 31, was arrested March 16 on child sexual abuse charges following a search of his residence on Fern Ridge Road, Sheriff Jim Yon reported.
Yon said detectives served a child exploitation search warrant at the residence as the culmination of an investigation into the distribution of child pornography over the internet from an IP address in Sweet Home.
Detectives interviewed Maze, a renter of the residence, who admitted to searching the internet for child pornography, downloading its contents, and sharing the content with others, Yon said. Following interviews and preliminary on-site digital forensics, Maze was arrested and booked into Linn County Jail on $100,000 bail.
According to court documents, Maze possessed multiple “animated recordings” depicting sexual acts involving children.
Maze pleaded guilty July 30 before Judge David E. Delsman, who pronounced the sentence.
The prosecution agreed in the case to limit its request for Maze’s prison sentence to 110 months. He could have faced double that amount.
– The New Era