DC man sentenced to +50 years in prison for sexually abusing 3 children

A D.C. man was sentenced to more than 50 years in prison for sexually abusing three children, including an infant.

Matthew Stitt Johnson, 34, plead guilty in August 2022 to two counts of sexual exploitation of a minor and one count of second-degree child sexual abuse with aggravating circumstances for abusing three minor children, according to a Friday news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.

Between 2015 and 2020, Johnson sexually abused an infant aged 8, 5 and 8 months. In some cases he recorded videos of the attacks.

The 8-year-old and 5-year-old reported the abuse to their mother, the news release said. No report was made to the police at the time.

It wasn’t until May 2021 that police searched Johnson’s home after receiving a tip from a “cloud-based service” that he had downloaded child sexual abuse material.

During that search, police found videos Johnson had recorded on his cell phone of two of the children being sexually abused. There were also more than 13,000 images of various child sexual abuse material, according to the press release.

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