FLORIDA
Jacqueline Numata, 27, of Tampa, plead guilty to one count of possession of child pornography and one count of communicating false bomb threats to the U.S. Air Force Air Base in Misawa, Japan, while she was an Army and Air Force Exchange Service employee in Misawa, officials said.
Numata’s sentencing will be set at a later date.
According to the plea documents, during a period of three months beginning in January 2015, Numata accessed and downloaded about 80 images of child pornography and uploaded the images to a blog she created in her estranged husband’s name.
She then used a fake Facebook profile to link those images to the Misawa Air Base Facebook community page, visible to all members of the site, officials said.
Authorities said Numata also created and distributed in Misawa a flyer advertising the sale of children for sex, child pornography and marijuana that included her estranged husband’s name and additional child exploitation images that she downloaded.
She used another fake Facebook profile to post a photo of the flyer on the Misawa Air Base Facebook page, according officials.
During this period, officials said Numata admitted that she communicated false bomb threats to Misawa Air Base on two occasions claiming to be from her estranged husband in order to frame him. As a result of the threats, the buildings in the affected areas on base were evacuated and the security posture was increased.
As part of her plea agreement, Numata must register as a sex offender under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act.