Reoffending sex offender charged with sharing child porn

CHARLOTTE — Robert E. Byam, 56, was charged Friday with five counts of third-degree sexual exploitation of a minor, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department announced.

Police got a tip on April 9 that child porn had been shared electronically and a search warrant was executed at Byam’s home on Karendale Avenue off Tuckaseegee Road.

Byam, who was registered as a sex offender stemming from a 2004 possession of child pornography conviction in Massachusetts, was arrested during the investigation.

He also was convicted in 2017 in Mecklenburg County on multiple counts of taking indecent liberties with children. Byam was on probation at the time of his arrest and is registered as a reoffending sex offender in Mecklenburg County.

He also was charged with a probation violation.

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