Collin D. Jerabek, 29, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced on July 14 in federal court in Omaha for one count of production of child pornography and one count of receipt and distribution of child pornography. United States District Judge Brian C. Buescher sentenced Jerabek to 360 months’ imprisonment on the production count and 240 months’ imprisonment on the receipt and distribution count, with the sentences running concurrently. There is no parole in the federal system. After his release from prison, Jerabek will serve a ten-year term of supervised release.
According to United States Attorney Lesley A. Woods, from December 9, 2023, through January 19, 2024, Jerabek posed as a teenage girl on Snapchat to induce four minor victims to provide sexually explicit material. He collected sexually explicit images of teenage girls from the internet and sent those images to the minor victims while pretending to be a similar-aged female. The minor victims produced and sent visual depictions of themselves engaged in sexually explicit conduct at Jerabek’s request; these included acts such as masturbation and anal penetration by an object in at least two instances. In a mirandized interview, Jerabek admitted he knew all minor victims were under age eighteen; their ages ranged from eleven to fifteen years old.
Jerabek distributed some of these images both to third parties on Snapchat and back to at least one victim who had originally sent him an image.
“Any sex offender that targets Nebraska’s children can expect the same level of prosecution as Mr. Jerabek, which is to say the maximum authorized under the law for these offenses,” said U.S. Attorney Lesley Woods. “Children need more protection now than ever from this type of online predator. We stand ready to provide it.”
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood—a nationwide initiative launched by the Department of Justice in May 2006 aimed at combating child sexual exploitation via coordination among federal, state and local agencies—and was investigated by Homeland Security Investigations.
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