A former Prince George’s County school bus driver pleaded to two counts of producing child pornography.
Federal prosecutors said 29-year-old Scott A. Smallwood used his cell phone to videotape himself molesting a 7-year-old boy whom he befriended on his bus route.
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“A vigilant citizen reported the discovery of child pornography, and remarkable detective work by police and federal agents resulted in the rescue of an abused child,” said U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein.
Smallwood faces between 15 and 30 years in prison at his sentencing scheduled for June 5.
The probe began in March 2010 after a customer at the 7-Eleven store in Clinton found a memory card on the counter and showed it to a store clerk.
Police were eventually able to identify the boy who told police that Smallwood was his “night” bus driver and someone who took him to church. He said he sometimes spent the night at Smallwood’s house.
Smallwood admitted that he had the boy over for “sleepovers” where he offered candy in exchange for inappropriate sexual contact.
Law enforcement executed a search warrant at Smallwood’s resident and seized several notebooks with charges and lists denoting sexual contact with several children, as well as several hundred pages of stories about sexual encounters between minors, and between minors and adults.
Smallwood was employed by Prince George’s County Public Schools as a school bus driver, and drove for a church at night, prosecutors said.
