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Grand Rapids man sentenced for live-streaming child porn

Posted at 11:45 AM, Jun 25, 2015
and last updated 2015-06-25 11:45:34-04

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A 29-year-old Grand Rapids man was sentenced to 30 years in prison Wednesday for live-streaming sexually explicit videos of a toddler to a couple in Georgia.

According to a release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Clint Andrews Williamson pleaded guilty to the child pornography crimes in February.

“Nothing anyone or I can do can change what he did,” the victim’s mother said in court, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.  “There is no going back. No apology will ever be enough.  Nothing will be enough.”

Williamson was arrested following a raid by the FBI and Kentwood Police.   Officials say he was a registered user of a “secretive” website where he posted child porn and chatted with other people about sexually abusing the toddler involved in this case.

He admitted to live-streaming two sexually explicit videos to the Georgia couple, officials said.  Those two people are also facing child abuse and child porn charges.

In addition to to his prison sentence, Williamson was also ordered to pay $3,000 in restitution to the victim and $2,000  to another child who appeared in a pornographic photo he downloaded.