UNNAMED BOYS - 5 and 6 yo - (2012) / Convicted: Robert Marzola - Essex, MD

2 Baltimore County men sentenced to almost 30 years in prison for sexually abusing a minor to produce child pornography

November 8, 2013


BALTIMORE – In two unrelated cases, two Baltimore County men on Thursday were sentenced to close to three decades in prison for producing child pornography.

U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Larry James Kerfoot, 38, of Dundalk, and Robert Marzola, of Essex, to 28 and 29 years in prison, respectively, each followed by lifetime supervised release, for sexually abusing a minor to produce child pornography. Judge Hollander also ordered that upon their release from prison, Kerfoot and Marzola must each register as a sex offender in the place where they reside and where they work under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).
The sentences were announced by U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein and various other law enforcement officials & agencies.

According to their plea agreements, in late May and early June 2012, an undercover Baltimore County detective downloaded child pornography from internet files made available by Kerfoot and Marzola from their homes.

Law enforcement officers executed a search warrant at Kerfoot’s home on June 27, 2012, and seized computers and digital media containing 19 videos and 80 images of child pornography that Kerfoot had received from the internet. Officers also seized a video Kerfoot had produced of a 12-year-old girl whom he had coerced to engage in sexually explicit conduct with him on at least five occasions.

Baltimore County Police executed a search warrant at Marzola’s residence on July 19, 2012 and seized a camera, computers and digital media. Investigation revealed that between December 2011 and July 2012, Marzola sexually abused a minor male at his home to produce images of himself and the minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Marzola saved the images on his laptop. Marzola told the boy, who was six years old when the abuse began, not to tell anyone about their conduct, which Marzola described to the boy as a game.

The images and videos that Marzola had previously produced of the boy were found on his laptop, along with 18 additional videos of children engaged in sexual conduct. According to information presented at Thursday’s sentencing hearing, during the investigation law enforcement identified a second boy that had been sexually abused by Marzola. The second victim, who was five years old at the time of the abuse, told investigators that on at least one occasion he had witnessed the sexual abuse of the first victim, and had been abused himself. As with the first victim, Marzola told the second victim not to tell anyone about what happened.

http://www.baltimorenewsjournal.com/2013/11/08/2-baltimore-county-men-sentenced-to-almost-30-years-in-prison-for-sexually-abusing-a-minor-to-produce-child-pornography/