Oakland County man arrested for posting and receiving videos of children being sexually assaulted

Michael Justin Hall, 38, of Davisburg was charged with possession, distribution and receipt of child pornography. 

Officials with Homeland Security Investigations said an undercover agent was conducting chats on a mobile application which allows users to control who they communicate with because usernames, not phone numbers, are the basis for accounts, officials said.

The undercover agent created a group last week with a name that indicated child sexual abuse, according to court records. Officials said at 1:11 p.m. a person, who authorities discovered was Hall, entered the group with the username “oldman1981” and posted messages that said, “Active,” “Good vides to post anyone?” and “Wheres the good vids?”

Hall posted a video in the group that meets the federal definition of child pornography, according to HSI. The video showed an adult man performing sex acts on a child between 6 months to 1 year old.

Hall claimed to be the man in the video, according to court records, and he said he had access to two children, one 6 years old and one 3 years old. Hall claimed they were his friend’s children, according to authorities.

The undercover agent reached out to Hall this past Thursday morning. Hall denied that he was the man in the video, but said he wished it was him, according to court records. 

Authorities received the IP address from the mobile application and learned oldman1981 had logged into the app 49 times in one day. The IP address was traced to Hall's home on Hutchinson Drive in Davisburg. 

HSI agents executed a search warrant Thursday at his residence. Hall was there and handed over a cellphone along with the password to his phone, where officials found the conversations between oldman1981 and the undercover agent. 

According to authorities, he shared the same video multiple times with other users on the app, including as recently as 1 a.m. Thursday.

Authorities found other videos and images Hall had reveiced that met the federal definition of child pornography, according to authorities.

On Jan. 8, Hall received two pictures showing a young boy being raped, officials said. On Sunday, he received a video from a different user that showed three naked children, two of which were performing sex acts. On Sunday, he received a video that showed a young girl being raped by an adult man.

The Michigan Sex Offenders Registry shows that Hall was convicted in September 1997 of first-degree criminal sexual conduct. Because he was a juvenile at the time, it was cataloged as a juvenile adjudication, officials said.

Hall was also convicted in 2006 of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, three counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct and possession of child sexually abusive material.