A former United States Air Force sergeant was sentenced in federal court in Atlanta Monday to 15 years in prison after he paid to watch a 4-year-old Georgia girl engage in sexually explicit acts, according to the U.S. Attorney in Atlanta.
Charles Caley, 49, of Warner Robins, was posted to the U.S. air base in Aviano, Italy in 2006 when he paid the mother of the Bremen girl to let him watch the child via webcam, U.S. Attorney Sally Quillian Yates' office said.
The victim’s mother already pleaded guilty to distributing child pornography and is in federal prison.
Caley got to know the mother in online chats, and as they grew "intimate," prosecutors said, "they began to express shared interests in underage ... sexual acts."
Soon, Caley was sending money orders to the mother so she would let Caley watch the girl "as she engaged in a variety of sexually explicit acts," according to Yates.
The "pay-per-view scheme," as prosecutors called it, later included two other older girls who visited the 4-year-old's home. Caley also watched those two in sexually suggestive poses via webcam, according to Yates.
The FBI discovered Caley's involvement during an investigation of the mother in connection with another case. Agents found evidence of his explicit on-line chats on her computer. FBI agents flew to Italy in January 2008 and confronted Caley. He admitted to paying for video access to the young girl and was court martialed then turned over to federal authorities, Yates' office said.
Caley pleaded guilty to the federal charges in 2009, and on Monday Senior U.S. District Court Judge J. Owen Forrester sentenced him to prison plus a lifetime of supervised release.
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