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Kyle Carrozza, creator of a Cartoon Network show, was arrested for possession of child pornography

TheoJuly 14, 2024

Kyle Adam Carrozza, creator of the Cartoon Network series Powerful Magiswords, was arrested last month by Burbank police on two counts of possession of child pornography.

Carrozza, 45, was arrested at 7:30 a.m. Thursday morning, June 20, at an apartment complex in Burbank, California. The arrest was part of an investigation by the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force. The arrest was noted in the Burbank Police Department’s daily arrest log (download PDF).

Carrozzas Powerful Magiwords debuted as a 15-second microseries on Cartoon Network’s CN Anything app in 2015. The show was “created specifically for the way young viewers consume media today,” said Rob Sorcher, then-Chief Content Officer of Cartoon Network, in 2016. “This is about how stories can be told in new ways and how a community can play together.”

Nearly 400 platform-specific assets were created around Carrozza’s show, including short films, vlogs, web/mobile games, and interactive narrative content. In 2016, Cartoon Network turned the project into a linear television series that spanned two seasons and over 90 episodes.

According to Carrozza’s Linkedin page, he was most recently a board artist at Nickelodeon’s Cosmo and Wanda – When fairies help: A new wish And The Casagrandes film. His other work includes storyboards for Warner Bros. Animations Animaniacs Restart, Apple TV+’s The Snoopy Show, Disney Junior Doc McStuffins, Disney’s fish hooks, Frederator’s The bravest warriorsand Nickelodeon Fanboy and buddy, and character design at Paramount’s Spongebob Squarepants: Sponge out of water. He also created the short film MooBeard the Cow Pirate for Nickelodeon Random! Cartoons.

Carrozza was charged under California Penal Code 311.11(a), which involves possession of child pornography, and under the aggravated Penal Code 311.11(c), which involves knowingly possessing at least 12 videos or 600 images containing child pornography.

The offenses can be charged as misdemeanors or felonies and are punishable by up to one year in prison or up to five years in prison. If found guilty of either count, Carrozza will be required to register with police as a sex offender. The crimes he is accused of do not relate to drawings, figures, statues or films rated by the Motion Picture Association.

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