D’Iberville Man Sentenced to Life in Prison Plus Fifty Years for Coercion of Minors and Production of Child Sexual Abuse Material

Gulfport, MS - A D'Iberville, Mississippi man was sentenced today to life in prison, plus a consecutive fifty years in prison, followed by lifetime supervised release, for coercing minor victims to participate in sexual activity and for producing images and videos of minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct.

In December 2024, multiple minor children notified law enforcement that they were being sexually abused by Sean Parol, a 53-year-old male. That same month, a search warrant was executed at Parol's residence.

During the search warrant, officers with the D'Iberville Police Department found various electronic devices belonging to Parol and hidden cameras throughout Parol's house. Parol was able to record some of the sexual abuse with the hidden cameras.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI") and a forensic examiner with the Mississippi Attorney General's Office, Cybercrime Division conducted a forensic analysis on the devices and cameras that were in Parol's house and found videos of Parol performing oral sex on multiple minor boys as well as having the minor boys perform oral sex on him.

On one electronic device, Parol was in possession of over 30,000 images and/or videos of child sexual abuse material.

The investigation revealed that to continue the sexual abuse, Parol would give the children vapes, buy them various items, and show the children adult pornography.

Acting U.S. Attorney Patrick A. Lemon of the Southern District of Mississippi and Special Agent in Charge Robert Eikhoff of the Federal Bureau of Investigation made the announcement.

The case was investigated by the FBI, Mississippi Attorney General's Office, Cybercrime Division, and the D'Iberville Police Department.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Lee Smith prosecuted the case.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by U.S. Attorneys' Offices and the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.