Huntington Man Pleads Guilty To Child Pornography Offense
Wednesday, February 19, 2025, 9:00 A.M. ET. 2 Minute Read, By Art Fletcher: Englebrook Independent News,
HUNTINGTON, W.VA.- A 52-year-old Huntington, West Virginia, man and a convicted sex offender is facing up to 20 years in federal prison after pleading guilty yesterday to a federal child pornography offense.
On Tuesday, February 18, 2025, Ampless Ray Lilly, 52, of Huntington, West Virginia, appeared in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia and pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Robert C. Chambers to one count of Possession of Pornography.
Following entering his guilty plea on Tuesday, Judge Chambers accepted the plea and scheduled sentencing for June 5, 2025. At that time, Lilly faces a mandatory minimum of ten years and up to 20 years in federal prison, at least five years and up to a lifetime of supervised release, and a $250,000 fine.
According To The U.S. Attorney’s Office
According to Acting U.S. Attorney Lisa G. Johnston and charging information filed with the District Court, beginning around February 20, 2023, and lasting through April 23, 2024, Lilly knowingly utilized the Internet to view, download, and possesses around 2,900 digital images and 1,100 video files depicting the sexual exploitation and abuse of prepubescent and pubescent children on his cellular phone accessing the internet from inside his Huntington, West Virginia home.
During his plea allocution yesterday, Lilly admitted that the child pornography he downloaded included depictions of prepubescent children engaged in sexually explicit conduct and depictions of children being subjected to horrific, sadistic, and masochistic abuse by adults and other depictions of violence perpetrated on young children.
According to federal and state records, Lilly is a registered sex offender as a result of his guilty plea to first-degree sexual assault in Lincoln County Circuit Court in January 1993. During the time of the instant offense, Lilly began serving a five-year term of probation that was imposed in November 2023 after he pleaded guilty to being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia on August 14, 2023.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of West Virginia has filed a motion with the U.S. District Court to have Lilly’s probationary term revoked. That motion is pending before the court.
