Laurel Man Pleads Guilty to Possession of Child Sexual Abuse Material

A Laurel, DE man has pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware to possessing child sexual abuse material. Court documents show that between August 21^st and 24^th of 2021, 38 year old Michael Natale received 12 videos and one image file depicting child porn – and he sent six video files and one image of child porn to another user on the social media platform Kik.

Natale will be sentenced on February 27^th, 2025. Natale has a previous conviction related to child porn offenses and faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years in prison – and a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.

The other user was also arrested by the FBI in New Jersey.