Naugatuck Sex Offender Sentenced For Federal Child Pornography Offense

Sunday, June 8, 2025, 8:15 A.M. ET. 2 Minute Read, By Art Fletcher: Englebrook Independent News,

BRIDGEPORT, CT.- A 41-year-old Naugatuck, Connecticut, convicted child predator found out he will be spending the next decade in federal prison after being sentenced on Friday for possessing digital images and video files depicting the sexual exploitation and abuse of children while on state probation for a similar offense.

     According to U.S. Attorney David X. Sullivan, on Friday, June 6, 2025, Travis Tilley, 41, formerly of Naugatuck, Connecticut, appeared in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut and was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Kari A. Dooley to 120 months in federal prison, to be followed by fifteen years of supervised release for his previously entered guilty plea to a federal child pornography violation.

Tilley, who has remained in custody since his arrest on March 28, 2023, appeared in Federal Court in Bridgeport, Connecticut, on March 6, 2025, and pleaded guilty to one count of Possession of Child Pornography.

According To The Charging Information Filed Against Tilley

     According to the charging documents filed with the District Court in 2019, Tilley was convicted in Connecticut State Court of risk and injury to a child, which involved his sexual abuse of a 5-year-old child and possession of child pornography. In August 2022, Tilley was released from state custody and began serving a 15-year term of probation.

     On March 9, 2023, State Probation Officers conducted an unannounced home visit to Tilley’s residence in Naugatuck, Connecticut, and seized a laptop computer and a flash drive. A subsequent forensic examination of the electronic devices uncovered that Tilley had utilized prohibited software and had accessed internet sites that provided sexually explicit material. The examination further uncovered that Tilley was using an encrypted email and messenger service that used an operating system that would leave no digital footprint so he could be a member of internet chat rooms that focused on child pornography and AI-generated child pornography.

Forensic Examination Of Devices Uncovers Child Porn

    The forensic examination also uncovered two video files depicting the sexual exploitation and abuse of prepubescent children, around 60 digital images of AI-generated child pornography, and sexually explicit chat room messages sent by Tilley’s laptop computer.