A Mississippi Gulf Coast man is facing up to 20 years in prison for possessing nearly 10,000 visual depictions of child pornography.
67-year-old Cameron Willis Cotrill on Wednesday pleaded guilty to having 9,900 images and videos of sexually explicit content involving minors on his desktop computer.
Cotrill was identified in an online child exploitation investigation on the BitTorrent network for offenders possessing and sharing child sexual abuse material. As part of the investigation, a direct download was completed of 139 files that were being made available from Cotrill’s device at his Vancleave address.
On January 11, 2022, the FBI assisted state officers in executing a search warrant at the 67-year-old’s address.
Cotrill is scheduled to be sentenced in Gulfport on April 11, 2024.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating the case with assistance from the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office. Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrea Jones is prosecuting the case.
