Trigger Warning: This story contains mention of child sex abuse materials.
Mike Eloshway— who starred on the first season of 90 Day Fiance— has been sentenced to just over 10 years in prison after being convicted in July of possessing child sex abuse materials (CSAM).
Mike’s wife Aziza— whom he appeared on “90 Day Fiance” with and married in 2014— attended all three days of Mike’s trial but did not speak during the trial or at Tuesday’s sentencing hearing.
According to Cleveland.com, Mike pleaded with the judge for mercy before she handed down the official sentence: 10 years and one month in prison. In addition, Mike will be required to register as a sex offender for life, and be on 10 years of strict post-prison supervision with computer activity monitoring following his release. Mike will also be responsible for paying $10,000 to a human trafficking victims’ fund, as well as $5,000 to each of the two victims depicted in the images he downloaded from February 2022-March 2023 on his garage computer.
Mike’s sentence is lower than the federal sentencing guidelines recommend for similar crimes. Typically, these sentences range between 17.5 and 20 years. (For comparison, TLC reality star Josh Duggar— who was also convicted of CSAM-related crimes in 2021 — was sentenced to 12.5 years in prison.)
Mike has maintained that he had no intention of seeking out CSAM featuring real children, and that he was trying to download legal, adult p0rnography. The former reality star— who welcomed a daughter in 2019 with Aziza–called CSAM “reprehensible.”
(Mike passed a polygraph test to confirm this, as well as to confirm that he did not have any inappropriate relationship with his daughter.)
“I hate that I became a part of this,” Mike said in court. “It breaks my heart. I have a five-year-old daughter who is my whole world. I never intended to see any of this.”
During his trial in July, Mike took the stand and stated that he never knowingly downloaded CSAM via BitTorrent (a peer-to-peer, file-sharing network), and that he immediately deleted any files he downloaded that featured children. He also claimed that an FBI agent who was present when Mike’s house was raided in 2023 pressured him into signing a confession by threatening that he would never see his daughter again.
“My only concern was being able to see my daughter again,” Mike said during his trial. “It was a crazy day, my heart was still racing, and I was under investigation for something I never meant to do. But I was worried I would never see my daughter again.”
Mike was indicted in June of 2023. Three months prior, a tracking service used by federal investigators revealed that Mike’s IP address “engaged in the receipt, possession, and distribution” of CSAM between February 13, 2022 and March 8, 2023. Later that month, Mike’s IP address was identified as one receiving and sharing CSAM files. According to Starcasm, Mike’s IP address received and/or transmitted 63,439 files, 9,541 of which were “severe files.”
In June 2024, Mike rejected a plea agreement that came with a prison sentence of between 12.4 years and 15.7 years, according to Cleveland.com.
Mike’s wife Aziza and other family members wrote letters to the judge before the sentencing hearing, asking that Mike be shown mercy for his crimes.
In her letter, Aziza stated that Mike deeply regrets his actions.
“This traumatic experience with his trial and the conviction has left us all shocked and heartbroken,” Aziza wrote. “My family is being torn apart, and I know that he has been tortured by his feelings of guilt and regret for the irresponsible mistake that he’s made.”
At his sentencing hearing, Mike asked the judge if he could begin serving his prison sentence after Christmas, so that he could have one more holiday with his family. The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) will ultimately decide when Mike will self-surrender to start serving his sentence.
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I’m sorry but this dude just looks like a pedophile. He always came across to me as being very “off” so it came as no surprise to me when he got outed as a creep. No surprise that he chose a very underage looking wife. Just another Anna Duggar that will consistently make excuses for this piece of human garbage instead of trying to protect her freaking kid.
Yeah Mike, you surely downloaded 9000+ “severe files” accidentally.
I’m glad he’ll spend most of his daughter’s childhood behind bars, she’ll be safe.
I remember when he and Aziza were first on 90D, and felt uncomfortable that she looked like a literal child. Now it all makes sense.
I call bullshit. Any “normal” adult looking up porn would go to a free fucking porn site since there’s so many. Not a peer to peer site. Sad that some drug offenses carry out longer sentences than these crimes. Should be life for everyone that has anything to do with children. Nasty, disgusting trash.
Mike is Josh Duggar Jr. Pedophile and pathological liar. Aziza is Anna Duggar Jr. a complete idiot who wants to keep her head buried in the sand and not put her kids safety first.
BTW pretending you “accidentally” downloaded 60,000 of CSAM is ridiculous. It isn’t even a believable lie. I don’t believe that pedophiles can be reformed. I believe they are more likely than not that they will reoffend multiple times. If you are sick enough to look up the torture and rape of children then you need to be put in jail for life because kids are the most innocent and vulnerable. Children need to be protected first and foremost.
I am genuinely asking- is it actually possible to watch adult videos and get spam CSAM from the website? Wouldn’t the fbi be able to search his computer history, if he actually looked for this type of video, if it appeared as a genuine computer virus, etc? I don’t know how technologically possible mikes defense is but I imagine it would be an easy one to prove
I’m not defending Mike, just answering your question.
Years and years ago when p2p file sharing was unregulated and hugely popular, my best friend would set his computer to download and share gay porn all day while he was at work and all night while he slept. I don’t remember any kid stuff but I do remember a few times there were animal videos labeled as gay porn. Of course he got rid of them when he found them but it did happen.
Now though with technology the way it is, I cannot believe that someone accidentally has CSAM on any device.
He used Bittorrent, with which you upload and download files with other users. Typically people use Bittorrent to acquire files they can’t get legitimately. I used to use it to pirate movie screeners. When you download a file via Bittorrent, by default, it has you auto-share it with anyone else on the platform looking to download it. You become a resource (called a “seed”) from which others can download the same content. That’s probably how he got hit with distributing it. You typically don’t “accidentally” download a Bittorrent.
Accidentally? With that many files?! No, dude. Rot in prison. And if I remember correctly from the Duggar trial, you have to SHARE those types of files to in turn receive them. I thought Duggar’s 12 year sentence was too short. 10 years for this monster is a joke.
Is he really trying to claim that he “accidentally” downloaded 60,000-plus files spread out through multiple occasions? Even if that was somehow possible, any sensible person would have immediately contacted law enforcement themselves to allow them to start an investigation on where they originated.
Ten years is an absolute joke of a sentence. People like that do not reform. It should be a capital offense.