Walker County man sentenced to 300 years for sexual exploitation of children
LMJC District Attorney’s Office
A Walker County man has been sentenced to 300 years in prison.
Earlier this month, a jury convicted Mark Anthony Williams of 16 counts of sexual exploitation of children.
Investigators say he had massive amounts of child sexual abuse material in his possession.
The LMJC District Attorney’s Office says the case originated from an unrelated investigation in Catoosa County, where the Catoosa County Sheriff’s office received a tip that Brian Lawson was downloading child sexual abuse material.
They say when his electronics were searched, child sexual abuse material was located on his phone, as well as conversations between Lawson and Williams in which they exchanged pictures and videos of children and discussed their desires to abuse children.
A search warrant of Williams’ home led to the seizure of 418 DVDs containing over 12,000 images and videos of child sexual abuse material; 12 USB thumb drives were seized containing tens of thousands of images and pictures of child; and a computer and several hard drives were seized and sent to the Department of Homeland Security, which confirmed that said items contained over 266,000 pieces of child sexual abuse material.
According to a Detective who worked the case, Williams admitted that he had been collecting it for more than 20 years.
They say on June 3rd, after a three-day trial, the jury found Mark Anthony Williams guilty of all 16 counts of sexual exploitation of children. That same day, Judge Chris Arnt held a sentencing hearing for
Williams. Judge Arnt sentenced Williams to the maximum allowable sentence under Georgia law, 300 years to be served in prison with 20 years of sex offender probation thereafter, according to the LMJC District Attorney’s Office.
