Acting United States Attorney Robert Stuart announced that Cody R. Childers, 21, of Plattsmouth, Nebraska, was sentenced Friday in federal court in Omaha for Producing Child Pornography. The Honorable Robert F. Rossiter, Jr., sentenced Childers to twenty years imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal prison system. After his release from prison, he will begin a ten-year term of supervised release under the supervision of the United States Probation Office. He will also be required to register as a sex offender.
Childers used Facebook to friend minor girls in and outside of Nebraska. He would request sexually explicit photographs from the minors. The three girls in Nebraska were between the ages of 13 and 15 when he obtained sexually explicit photos from them. He also directed minors in other states to take and send sexually explicit photos to him.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by United States Attorney’s Offices and the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.
This case was investigated by the Nebraska State Patrol. The investigation began as a cybertip from Facebook.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
