A 33-year-old southeast Michigan man faces federal charges after investigators alleged that he uploaded child sexual abuse material to a cloud account and stored additional material on phones and a hard drive at his home. Gerald Taekwon-Lamar Udoroh is accused of transporting, receiving and possessing the material, according to a federal complaint filed Thursday in Detroit.
The complaint says 22 videos were uploaded to a Verizon Cloud account linked to Udoroh between June 15 and Oct. 4, according to ClickOnDetroit. Verizon Cloud is operated through Synchronoss, a provider of personal cloud storage services, the outlet reported. An FBI analyst reviewing the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children database on Oct. 20 found 11 CyberTipline reports concerning suspected uploads from a Verizon wireless account linked to Udoroh and a southeast Michigan home.
Videos Allegedly Showed Boys as Young as 9 and an Infant
The complaint describes videos involving boys believed to be about 14 and 11, and another involving boys estimated to be 9 to 11. A batch of 10 videos reported on Sept. 28 reportedly included one depicting an adult man sexually abusing an infant. One video appeared to be a screen recording of a livestreamed chat conversation, according to the complaint as described by the outlet.
Investigators traced an IP address associated with the uploads to Udoroh and searched his southeast Michigan home Thursday. Agents found two cellphones in his bedroom and an external hard drive in a drawer beside the bed, according to the report.
Hard Drive Folders Labeled “Teen Videos” and “My Favorite Videos”
Investigators said the external hard drive contained folders labeled “Teen Videos” and “My Favorite Videos” with child sexual abuse material. The complaint describes one file showing a boy believed to be about 13 and another involving a boy estimated to be 12 to 13.
Agents also found a video made on one of the phones in a hidden folder, showing a boy estimated to be about 10, the complaint says. Udoroh identified both phones as his and acknowledged that he knew the video was on his phone, according to the FBI. He was arrested after the investigation.
Detention Hearing Set for Monday
Court records show Udoroh has a detention hearing scheduled for Monday at 1 p.m. in Detroit. The current text of 18 U.S.C. § 2252A sets a five-to-20-year imprisonment range for specified transportation and receipt-related violations, while possession has a separate penalty scheme, according to the U.S. Code. The statute has been amended. The statute does not determine what sentence, if any, would apply in this pending case.
How the charges and CyberTipline reports are assessed
The statute’s penalty provisions distinguish among offenses, and the complaint’s allegations are not a determination of what penalty could ultimately apply. Any sentence would depend on the outcome of the pending case and the applicable provision.
NCMEC distinguishes CyberTipline referrals that include enough information for law enforcement from informational reports, which may lack sufficient information or involve imagery reported many times, according to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.
The case lands amid a broader surge in reports of online child exploitation nationwide. Reports submitted by electronic service providers to the CyberTipline contained 61.8 million images, videos and other files tied to child sexual exploitation incidents in 2025, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The organization identified and escalated more than 53,000 reports last year that were urgent or involved a child believed to be in imminent danger, and reports related to child sex trafficking jumped 323% compared with 2024.
