Ex-Firefighter Indicted On Child Porn Charges

BALTIMORE (AP) -- A former Baltimore County firefighter has been indicted of charges that he recorded himself performing sex acts on a boy.

The federal indictment against 23-three-year-old Anthony Maurice Cottle of Owings Mills was returned Wednesday. Cottle has been ordered detained pending trial.

According to the three-count indictment, Cottle coerced two boys to engage in sexually explicit conduct while he produced videos. Prosecutors say one showed Cottle performing sex acts on one boy; another is an explicit of the other child.

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