A Silver Spring man was sentenced to 50 years in federal prison for committing child sex abuse crimes involving more than 100 minors.
Chase William Mulligan, 28, was sentenced Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuag. He sentenced Mulligan to 25 years of supervised release after he is released from prison. Mulligan was charged with two counts of producing child sexual abuse material.
The charges are in connection with a scheme in which he met young girls through social media and internet chat rooms. There he eventually “sextorted” them. He is alleged to have coerced at least 108 girls from age 5 to 17 years to send him sexually explicit photos and videos of themselves.
If the girls stopped sending the photos, Mulligan threated to post the images online or come to their house, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Maryland.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Mulligan used Snapchat, Discord, Roblox, Skype, Omegle and Instagram accounts between 2019 and December 2023 to target the girls. The girls lived in the United States, Canada, Denmark, Spain, Philippines, Australia and the United Kingdom. He coerced them to produce and send him very sexually explicit images.
This case is part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.
A Silver Spring, Maryland, man is headed to federal prison for several decades for committing child sex abuse crimes.
Chase William Mulligan, 28, received a 50-year sentence in connection with a scheme in which he met young girls through social media and internet chat rooms and… pic.twitter.com/rjORAVj8SI
— US Attorney Maryland (@USAO_MD) February 17, 2026
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