Dearborn man Audy Mugally Al-Saidi arrested for possession of 35,000 child pornography files

A Michigan man has been busted by the FBI for allegedly possessing more than 35,000 files of suspected child sexual abuse material, including the rapes of infants and toddlers.

Audy Mugally Al-Saidi, 26, of Dearborn, was arrested by federal authorities on April 2. The FBI said it found "hundreds of images meeting the federal definition of child pornography" on Al-Saidi's electronic devices seized during a home raid.

According to an FBI affidavit, images in the cached area of the computer showed adult males sexually abusing infant girls. The collection also featured images of adult males sexually assaulting young girls and toddlers.

Al-Saidi was booked into Sanilac County Jail on $10,000 bail. He has since been released on GPS home monitoring, court records show.

On February 18, 2026, an FBI agent from the Violent Crimes Against Children unit discovered a device and IP address containing approximately 35,002 potentially downloadable files "whose keywords or harsh values were consistent with images or videos that likely meet the federal definition of child pornography." According to the affidavit, the agent discovered the files while logged into a BitTorrent peer-to-peer file-sharing program on an undercover computer that monitors child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

In August 2025, the agent discovered that a computer using the same IP address had shared roughly 75 files that consisted of images meeting the "federal definition of child pornography." Files included photos described as "the lascivious display" of children's genitals.

One of the folders was titled "incest and abuse," which included videos of adults sexually abusing children. Another folder was named "PTHC," a term meaning pre-teen hardcore, per the affidavit.

On March 20, FBI investigators found that a device using the same IP address had downloaded CSAM 3,500 times between July 16, 2025, and March 11, 2026. The FBI traced the IP address to Al-Saidi's home on Lapham Street in Dearborn, Michigan. Al-Saidi told investigators that he was familiar with BitTorrent and used it "to download movies."

Al-Saidi has worked as a strategic account manager at Future Electronics since April 2025, according to his LinkedIn profile. As part of his conditions of release, he has been ordered not to have unsupervised contact with anyone under the age of 18 and must surrender all of his internet-connected devices. Al-Saidi has also been prohibited from traveling outside of southeast Michigan until trial.