Friday, Aug. 10, 2018 | 7:02 p.m.
A former Henderson resident will serve 11 years in prison for sharing sexually explicit photos of children on his Twitter timeline, the office of U.S. Attorney of the District of Nevada announced today.
Mark Alan Stoneking was arrested in 2017 after authorities executing a search warrant at his Henderson residence discovered a plethora of child porn files on four of his electronic devices: 600 videos and more than 200,000 photos, officials said.
Several of the victims were young children who were being sexually abused, according to court documents.
Earlier this year, the 40-year-old man who now resides in Ohio, pleaded guilty to a single charge of distribution of child pornography, officials said.
Admittedly, for a couple of weeks beginning Dec. 20, 2014, Stoneking published sexually explicit photos of children on the social media platform, officials said. Anyone who followed Stoneking’s Twitter account had access to the posts in real time.
As police stormed his house on Jan. 12, 2016, Stoneking unsuccessfully tried to hide a cellphone that contained illegal images in his attic, officials said. More than a year later, Stoneking was arrested by federal agents in Ohio.
After spending 135 months in prison, Stoneking will face lifetime supervision and have to register as a sex offender, officials said.
