SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, June 10, 2025 (Gephardt Daily) -- A 25-year-old Orem man has been sentenced to eight years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release.
The sentence was imposed Austin Matthew Otto by U.S. District Court Judge Howard C. Nielson, Jr., comes Otto pleaded guilty on June 4 to producing sexually explicit photos of two children and uploaded child sexual abuse to his Google Photos account.
"Additionally, law enforcement found 400 images and 19 videos of child sexual abuse material on his laptop and cell phone," says a news release issued Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Justice, District of Utah.
"In addition to his term of imprisonment, (Otto) was ordered by the court to pay $3,000 in restitution to each of the victims."
In May 2021, Otto was identified from a Google report to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children after he uploaded child sexual abuse material to his Google Photos account, the release says.
The investigation of IP addresses led to the identification of Otto and he was arrested.
"Pursuant to a search warrant, hundreds of images and video of child sexual abuse material and a pair of child size six underwear were seized.
"The forensic evaluation on the digital evidence also revealed filenames, keyword and web browser hits, bookmarks, playback history of videos, hidden names and folders all containing child sexual abuse material including 17 exploitive images of two victims under 8 years old located on Otto’s cell phone and laptop."
The case was investigated by the Orem Police Department. Assistant United States Attorney Carol A. Dain of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Utah prosecuted the case.
