When you are a creator of content and programming for kids, you’re supposed to love children. Just not like this.
Kyle Adam Carrozza, (also known as “TV’s Kyle”), creator of the Cartoon Network series Mighty Magiswords, was taken into custody by the Burbank Police Department last month on two counts of possessing child pornography.
Carrozza, who is 45, was apprehended at a Burbank, California apartment complex on Thursday, June 20, at 7:30 am. This arrest was part of an investigation by the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force, and it was documented in the Burbank Police Department’s daily arrest log.
Carrozza’s Mighty Magiswords premiered on Cartoon Network’s CN Anything app in 2015 as a series of 15-second micro-shows.
Nearly 400 pieces of platform-specific content were developed for Mighty Magiswords, including shorts, vlogs, web/mobile games, and interactive narratives. In 2016, Cartoon Network expanded the project into a full-fledged TV series, which ran for two seasons and over 90 episodes.
Carrozza recently worked as a storyboard artist on Nickelodeon’s The Fairly OddParents: A New Wish and The Casagrandes Movie. His credits also include storyboarding for Warner Bros. Animation’s Animaniacs reboot, Apple TV+’s The Snoopy Show, Disney Junior’s Doc McStuffins, Disney’s Fish Hooks, Frederator’s Bravest Warriors, and Nickelodeon’s Fanboy & Chum Chum. Additionally, he worked on character layout for Paramount’s SpongeBob SquarePants: Sponge Out of Water, and he created the short MooBeard the Cow Pirate for Nickelodeon’s Random! Cartoons.
Carrozza faces charges under California penal code 311.11(a) for possession of child pornography, along with an enhanced 311.11(c) charge, which applies to individuals knowingly possessing at least 12 videos or 600 images of child pornography.
These charges can be prosecuted as either misdemeanors or felonies, carrying penalties of up to one year in county jail or up to five years in state prison. If convicted, Carrozza would be required to register as a sex offender with law enforcement.
The communities of both comedy music and animation voice acting are stunned by the news, and people who have worked closely with Carrozza in the past have been making posts in their social media distancing themselves him. Carrozza cohosted a podcast with Luke Sienkowski (“The Great Luke Ski”) called Talk About Tunes, which posted biweekly. That podcast has since been removed from the hosting service it called home, and will no longer be available.
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