Alburgh Man Sentenced For Producing & Distributing Child Pornography

Tuesday, May 27, 2025, 12:45 P.M. ET. 2 Minute Read, By Art Fletcher: Englebrook Independent News,

RUTLAND, VT.- Last Wednesday, a 60-year-old Alburgh, Vermont, child predator found out he will be spending over a decade in federal prison after being sentenced for secretly recording a teen girl to produce child pornography and then distributing the digital images and video files to an undercover law enforcement officer.

     According to Acting U.S. Attorney Michael P. Drescher, on Wednesday, May 21, 2025, Brian Bluto, 60, formerly of Alburgh, Vermont, appeared in the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont and was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Mary Kay Lanthier to 144 months in federal prison, to be followed by 15 years of supervised release for his previously entered guilty plea to a federal child pornography violations.

     Bluto previously appeared in Federal Court in Rutland, Vermont,  and pleaded guilty before Judge Lanthier to the Distribution of Child Pornography on October 21, 2024, and has been detained since his guilty plea.

Bluto Films Teen Girl

     According to the charging documents filed with the District Court, Bluto produced digital images and video files of child pornography by hiding a camera to secretly record a teen girl with whom he was living. Bluto began making the secret recordings when the girl was around 13 years old and continued to do so until she was 16 years old.

     Bluto then distributed the digital images and video files of the teen girl to a person on the internet, who he thought was a child predator but was actually an undercover Australian law enforcement officer. The Australian Officers notified members of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Investigations, who obtained and executed a court-authorized search warrant at Bluto’s Alburgh, Vermont residence.

During A Search, Officers Find Hundreds Of Images And Videos

     During the search, Investigators located and seized several electronic devices, including one that was located in a backpack that was pointing toward the bathroom in the residence. The backpack had a homemade cut in the fabric where the lens of the camera on the electronic device could stick out without being noticed.

     A subsequent forensic examination of Bluto’s other electronic devices uncovered hundreds of digital images and video files depicting the sexual exploitation and abuse of prepubescent and pubescent children, including a video file of a toddler being sexually abused by an adult.