An Indianapolis man is facing federal charges after investigators found thousands of pornographic pictures, some of which the man produced, of children on devices in his home, United States attorney Josh Minkler announced last week.
Christopher Anthony Abraham, 38, is charged with sexual exploitation of four children — all of whom are under the age of seven and some of whom had been left in his care. He is also charged with possession of child pornography.
Investigators received a tip Jan. 2 from a man who said he found photos of naked children on Abraham’s phone and computer. The man copied a folder with the photos from the computer onto a thumb drive and shared it with investigators.
Some of the photos were from a known series of commercial child porn, according to investigators. Others, however, were of the four children. In the photos, the children are laying on their backs with their genitals exposed.
When investigators went to Abraham’s residence on the east side of Indianapolis Jan. 2, Abraham cooperated. He provided passwords and access to various devices in his home, including multiple desktop computers and laptops, tablets and a cell phone.
That day, investigators received a search warrant for Abraham’s property and began to search all his devices. They found thousands of commercial photos of child porn and roughly about 70 photos that appeared to have been produced by Abraham. He admitted to using a file-sharing system to download photos of models for some of the images he made himself. The images of the children Abraham knew were likely created between May 2015 and December 2016, according to court documents.
When confronted with these images, Abraham admitted to creating them himself in the bedroom of his home.
He identified the children in the photos — one is the child of a family friend who had lived with him for a period, one is a former neighbor and two are siblings, the children of one of Abraham’s friends. The youngest child is 2 years old.
Some of the photos showed Abraham kissing the children’s genitals. Others showed him kneeling over the children with his pants down and pressing his penis into their genitals. He said he had done some of these things because the children had asked him to.
Abraham admitted to being sexually attracted to children, according to court documents.
The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, Indiana State Police and the Indiana Crimes Against Children Task Force investigated this case.
“Protecting trusting children from predators who would sexually exploit them continues to be a top priority in my office,” Minkler said in a press release. “In this office, child victims will always have an advocate to hold their abusers accountable.”
If convicted on all charges, Abraham could face a maximum of 140 years imprisonment, said Kristina Korobov, assistant U.S. attorney and the government’s prosecutor for this case.
Abraham made his first court appearance late last week. He is currently in the custody of U.S. marshals.
