Timothy Robert Guilfoyle

GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- A 21-year-old man will spend the next three to 20 years in prison after he admitted to sending topless photos of his brother's 16-year-old girlfriend out over the Internet and also to possessing and sharing hundreds of pornographic images of children.

Standing before Kent County Circuit Court Judge Mark Trusock on Thursday, Feb. 12, Sean Michael Guilfoyle said that he realizes what he did was wrong.

"I understand very clearly that I have an addiction problem," Guilfoyle said. "I want to live some sort of productive, positive life in the future."

Meanwhile, his 65-year-old father, Timothy Robert Guilfoyle, pleaded guilty to three counts of child sexually abusive commercial activity on Monday, Feb. 9. He will be sentenced March 19.

The two had hundreds of sexually explicit images of children on computers and thumb-drives found at their homes in Caledonia and Grand Rapids' West Side, police said.

Trusock told the younger Guilfoyle on Thursday that even though he did not take the photos, by distributing them, he was still responsible for exploiting children.

"It's such a violation of these young children," Trusock said to Guilfoyle. "You have a major problem with pornography."

The elder Guilfoyle remains in the Kent County Jail pending his sentence hearing, which will also be before Trusock.

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