UPDATE: Milford child sex offender convicted again

A Milford sex offender is behind bars once again, after he was found to be uploading child pornography to YouTube, just one month after his release. On Wednesday, 24-year-old Eric Aldrich pleaded guilty to receipt of child pornography.

Back in October 2011, Aldrich was convicted of dealing in child pornography, and sentenced to 15 years in prison, that was suspended after 2 years. He was then released from custody in May 2014, and put on probation.

After his release, Aldrich caught the attention of the Delaware Child Predator Task Force in June 2014, when cybertips from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children showed that Aldrich had uploaded files with child pornography to YouTube. A search of Aldrich’s home revealed computer equipment with over 5,000 still images and 200 videos depicting child pornography, featuring mostly prepubescent and adolescent girls being sexually abused by men, and webcam images of young teen girls engaged in sexual conduct. During the investigation Aldrich admitted that during his release from prison, he had been going on the Internet on a laptop, and downloading child pornography.  

Aldrich is expected to be sentenced on August 7. Due to Aldrich’s prior convictions, he is facing a mandatory minimum sentence of fifteen years, and a maximum sentence of forty years, in prison, along with five years to life of supervised probation following his release. He will also have to continue to register as a sex offender.