MARYLAND — An former Air Force Sgt. was sentenced to 120 years in federal prison for sexually exploiting toddlers and children to produce porn, according to authorities.
William S. Gazafi, age 44, of Lusby, Maryland, is also accused of drugging and binding at least five children, officials said.
According to the evidence,indictment, on August 15, 2013, Gazafi engaged in a chat with an undercover officer on a website dedicated to incest discussions. During the chat, Gazafi discussed his sexual interest in children and advised that he had been drugging and molesting several children, including an infant.
During the chat, Gazafi sent seven images to the undercover officer, three of which were child pornography Gazafi stated he produced after drugging the child. Gazafi was subsequently identified and arrested.
At the time of his arrest, officials said Gazafi was carrying multiple digital media items. A forensic examination of those items, and others seized from his residence, revealed videos and images that Gazafi produced of children engaged in sexually explicit conduct, including one child as young as five months old.
Officials claim the images also depict children bound and handcuffed while sleeping.
In addition to producing hundreds of images of five children, ranging in age from five months to seven years, Gazafi distributed the images he produced to others on the Internet. Gazafi was communicating with other child pornography producers, some of whom sent him images of children they were abusing, officials said.
Thus far, three children have been identified as a result.
Authorities said Gazafi possessed over 15,000 images and videos of children being sexually abused, many of toddler and infant age. At the time of his arrest, Gazafi was a non-commissioned officer in the U.S. Air Force working at Andrews Air Force Base.