Inside look at ‘International Child Porn Ringleader Adam Wright’ A federal prisoner in Michigan serving time for robbing a bank was given a 24-year sentence on Tuesday for the 2019 murder of the head of a child porn ring.
International Child Porn Ringleader Adam Wright
Adam Wright, 42, was the first of three inmates to be sentenced in the fatal beating and stabbing of Christian Maire, 40. The Detroit News reported that Maire was housed at Milan Correctional Facility when he was stabbed 28 times with a makeshift knife, stomped, kicked, and hurled down a flight of stairs.
“Specifically, Wright and [co-defendant Jason] Kechego repeatedly kicked and stomped Maire in the head, and Wright prevented corrections officers from intervening while [co-defendant Alex] Castro repeatedly stabbed Maire. Wright, along with his two co-defendants, then worked together to throw Maire’s body down a flight of stairs,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan said in a statement.
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In 2018, Maire was sentenced to 40 years in prison for organizing an online group that had members posing as teen boys to procure girls who were then manipulated into performing sex acts on camera. One hundred children were targeted and exploited, according to The Detroit News.
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MLive.com reported that seven men in the U.S. and Canada were involved in Maire’s child porn ring — which victimized girls as young as 10.
At the time of Maire’s slaying, Wright was already serving a federal sentence for committing a string of bank robberies in 2011. His release was scheduled for 2032.
In February, Wright admitted guilt to second-degree murder for his part in Maire’s killing. The most recent sentence will follow his earlier ones in both timing and content.
Co-defendants Kechego, 41, and Castro, 42, are now in jail for trial. According to The Detroit News, Castro and Kechego were put on trial for the murder of Maire; however, the case was declared a mistrial in July due to the jury’s impasse.
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