A man who has been described by U.S. authorities as the world’s most prolific purveyor of child pornography has been sentenced to 27 years in federal prison. Eric Eoin Marques pleaded guilty last year to running a service on the dark web.
A reporter interviews acting U.S. Attorney Jonathan Lenzner outside the federal courthouse in Greenbelt, Md., on Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021, after a judge sentenced Eric Eoin Marques to 27 years in prison. U.S. authorities have said Marques, 36, was the world's most prolific purveyor of child pornography when he was arrested in Ireland in 2013.
U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang told Marques that his crimes were the equivalent of those of a drug kingpin.Prior to learning his sentence, Marques apologized to the victims and asked for mercy from the court. The revised agreement recommended a prison sentence between 21 and 27 years, but Chuang wasn’t bound by those terms.
“They all got together and they sexually exploited children,” he said. “They reveled in that sexual exploitation.” Marques pleaded guilty in February 2020 to creating and operating a web hosting service called “Freedom Hosting” on the darknet between 2008 and 2013. The darknet is part of the internet but hosted within an encrypted network. It is accessible only through anonymity-providing tools.
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