A repeat child sex offender who lured young boys to his house with candy, alcohol, drugs and a pool table was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison Thursday.
U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Robert Paul Layton, 48, of Dundalk, for sexual exploitation of a minor to produce child pornography and possession of child pornography. Motz also ordered Layton to forfeit his home, car, computer and other property seized at his residence.
“Robert Layton will not be able to victimize any more children,” Maryland U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein said in a statement.
Layton also faces 40 years in prison today when he is sentenced in Baltimore County Circuit Court after admitting to sexually abusing a 13-year-old boy in January.
Layton admitted luring boys to his house on Broadship Road and soliciting them for sex. As many as 11 boys ? ranging from ages 11 to 15 ? have accused him of giving them cash, alcohol and marijuana if they allowed him to perform sexual acts on them, prosecutors said.
Layton permitted the boys to look at pornography ? and in 2003 also coerced a male minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct to produce pornography, prosecutorssaid.
In the case being heard in Baltimore County today, prosecutors said Layton took advantage of the 13-year-old boy by giving him beer.
According to police charging documents, the boy protested Layton?s sexual advances.
“I am not gay,” the boy said.
“I?m the one who?s gay, not you,” Layton replied.
Layton is a registered child sex offender in Maryland.
Court records show he was convicted of three counts of a third-degree sex offense in Prince George?s County in 1995, but was released from prison early on good-behavior credits.
