Fort Myers Man Sentenced to 30 Years for Enticing Minors to Engage in Sexual Activity, and Receiving, Possessing and Accessing Child Sexual Abuse Images and Videos

Fort Myers, Florida – Michael Lawrence Milewski (32, Fort Myers) has been sentenced by U.S. District Judge Kyle C. Dudek to 30 years in federal prison for enticing minors to engage in sexual activity, receiving and possessing images and videos depicting the sexual abuse of children, and transferring obscene matter to a minor. Milewski was also sentenced to a term of life of supervised release and ordered to register as a sex offender. U.S. Attorney Gregory W. Kehoe made the announcement. Milewski had entered a plea of guilty on April 30, 2026. According to court documents, from December 2024, through February 2025, Milewski used a social media application to persuade, induce, and entice minors to engage in sexual activity for which Milewski could have been charged with a criminal offense of sexual performance by a child or production of child pornography. In June 2025, law enforcement launched an investigation into Milewski, after a minor disclosed that she had been communicating with an adult online who had requested images and videos of her engaging in sexually explicit conduct. Milewski’s social media account records revealed messages that were sexual in nature and that Milewski had engaged in with several minors, and images and videos depicting minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct that Milewski requested and received from the minors. This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Fort Myers Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force, which includes the Lee County Sheriff’s Office, and with assistance from the Cape Coral Police Department. It was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Yolande G. Viacava. This is another case brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by the United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.justice.gov/psc.