Convicted child molester headed back to prison

Wayne Muller, convicted 15 years ago for molesting a young boy, was sentenced Tuesday in Cherokee County for child exploitation.

Muller, 44, of Woodstock, was given 40 years in prison and 20 on probation for having what authorities called a “record number of child porn videos and pictures” in his possession.

The conviction comes a little over a year after Muller was arrested by detectives from the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office.

Muller faced 41 counts of sexual exploitation of a child. Each count carried a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, Sgt. Jay Baker, spokesman for the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution when Muller was arrested.

About 700 movies and 150 photographs of children involved in various sex acts were found on his home computer, police said. He was arrested after a monthlong investigation by the department’s Internet Crimes Against Children unit.

It was "the highest quantity of child porn ever seized by ICAC investigators in Cherokee County,” Baker said.

Convicted in 1994 for molesting an 11-year-old boy in Cherokee County, Muller spent two years in prison.