Daytona Beach, FL – A Port Orange man already sentenced to the maximum possible penalty allowed under law for having and posting child porn online gets more prison time.
David Allen Hall was sentenced to another 5 years behind bars on Wednesday on top of the 825 years he got when he was originally sentenced last July.
7th Circuit State Attorney RJ Larizza said afterward that this was done in part over concerns that Hall might get his sentence shortened upon appeal.
“David Hall is a dangerous sexual predator with a history of targeting children,” Larizza added. “Based on his continuing crimes of sexually abusing children, we felt that seeking as many years in prison on as many charges as possible was the best way to safeguard the children of our community.”
Hall was convicted last June by a Volusia County jury on 55 felony counts of possessing child pornography following a 2-day trial. Jurors took over 2 hours to deliberate before finding Hall – a former cook at Red Robin in Port Orange – guilty.
The 41-year-old was handed this latest sentence after another jury found him guilty of failing to register as a sex offender.
Hall – who is currently not eligible for parole – was arrested by the Daytona Beach Police Department in June 2014 after investigators say he posted images of naked boys on Tumblr using accounts he hadn’t registered with his probation officer following his release from prison in 2012.
Court records show Hall was previously convicted of attempted lewd and lascivious molestation of a minor in 1996 and was a registered sex offender prior to his June 2014 arrest by DBPD. That required him to register any email address or online screen names he used with authorities.
He was civilly committed for 14 years under the Jimmy Ryce Act on top of his prior stay in prison, according to Larizza.
The DBPD investigation started with a “CyberTip” to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, according to his arrest report.
Police say Hall admitted to having multiple Facebook accounts and eventually confessed to having the photos on his computer after first denying knowledge of them.
David A. Hall (mugshot courtesy Volusia County Jail)
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