Michael Faucett v. United States

SYKES, Circuit Judge.

Michael Faucett possessed large quantities of child pornography, some of which he produced himself. His collection included 59 sexually explicit photos of his five-year-old granddaughter that he took while she was sleeping. When investigators searched his computer and found the collection, he initially denied knowledge of it. But he confessed when they confronted him with the pornographic pictures of his granddaughter. Faucett pleaded guilty to three federal crimes: two counts of producing child pornography, see 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a), and one count of possessing child…