A Hilliard man will spend nearly two decades behind bars for creating homemade child pornography.
34-year-old Jeremiah Malfroid was sentenced on Friday after investigators discovered 281 files of child pornography on his computer. 77 of those images depicted children who have been identified by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
Numerous additional images on Malfroid’s computer depicted Malfroid sexually abusing a female child. It was confirmed that Malfroid had access to the juvenile female between approximately 2007 and 2013, when the child was three to nine years old.
Malfroid was charged in October 2014, but absconded during the investigation. He later turned himself in to local authorities in California in December 2014, after being profiled on the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Operation Predator smartphone app. It is a user-generated Facebook post indicating Malfroid’s fugitive status had been created the same month and shared nearly 200,000 times.
Malfroid pleaded guilty to production of child pornography on April 2, 2015.
