William Edward Wray gets 50 years for child pornography

Wray had not only his own hard drives, but those of customers he serviced, whose hard drives had been wiped clean and then used by Wray for his own purposes. Calling Wray’s actions “an addiction,” Biser said sexual predators “can never get enough."

A Cresaptown man who pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual exploitation of a minor to produce child pornography has been sentenced to 50 years in prison.

William Edward Wray II, 51, was sentenced Friday by U.S. District Court Judge Richard Bennett.

On Jan. 27, Wray, a computer technician, sexually exploited a minor female to produce a photograph of her engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Court records say Wray also produced videos of another minor female he engaged in the same conduct between November 2002 and November 2004, resulting in the second criminal count.

Law enforcement authorities in Cumberland are happy with the sentence, which came about following an exhaustive investigation by local, state and federal officials, and as a result of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative designed to protect children from online exploitation and abuse. Sgt. Dave Biser said that C3I spent months on the case, working with investigators from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as well as the U.S. Postal Service and the FBI. “C3I is very pleased with the sentence, given the nature of the crime,” Biser said. “He deserved it.”

According to court records, the lengthy investigation led police to both the victims and more than 600 images of child pornography scattered around Wray’s residence, as well as numerous hard drives, several hundred pieces of removable media, a digital video camera, several Polaroid images of child pornography and two videotapes of Wray engaging in sexually explicit behavior with minor children, including the two victims.

When officers entered Wray’s residence, his computer was operating on a file-sharing program, distributing his collection of child pornography to other individuals through the Internet.


The images Wray distributed, received or possessed included sadistic or masochistic violence involving prepubescent minors.

After local investigators seized the evidence, C3I Sgt. Jon Dudiak said one homemade video showed Wray engaging in sexual contact with underage girls as young as 9. Wray was originally charged with numerous crimes, including first-degree rape, first- and second-degree sex offense, second-degree assault and soliciting a subject for child pornography.