Baltimore man sentenced to 23 years in prison for sexually exploiting a child ages 2 to 8

BALTIMORE (WBFF) — On Monday, William Zev Steen, 46, of Baltimore, was sentenced to 23 years in federal prison followed by life of supervised release for sexual exploitation of a child.

According to his guilty plea, Steen sexually abused the minor victim from 2005 to 2011, from when she was two years old until she was eight years old.

Steen recorded two cases of sexual abuse in 2008, when the minor victim was five years old.

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Steen also admitted that in 2022, using a peer-to-peer file sharing network, he collected and shared files depicting the sexual abuse of prepubescent minors.

The files documenting Steen’s abuse of the underage victim were on his digital devices after his arrest in November 2022.

The sentence was announced by Erek L. Barron, U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland; Special Agent in Charge Michael S. McCarthy of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI); and Commissioner Richard Worley of the Baltimore Police Department.