Tennessee man was sentenced Thursday to 27 years in prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release for extorting and threatening multiple minors into performing sexual acts on camera, officials stated.
According to court documents, Caleb D. Jordan, 22, of Mount Juliet, met three minors online through a video gaming platform.
Jordan told the minors, who were between 11 and 14 years old, that people were coming to “get them” and threatened to kill or sexually assault their parents unless the minors created videos of themselves engaging in sexual activity.
Jordan instructed them to perform and record specific sex acts. It used these minors to create nearly 400 sexually explicit videos, some of which depict the minor victims crying or in visible distress, court records indicate.
Jordan then attempted to sell the videos over an encrypted internet chatting application. Electronic devices seized from Jordan’s home also contained more than 10,000 images and videos of child sexual abuse material, court records indicate.
HSI Nashville investigated the case.
Trial Attorney Kyle P. Reynolds of the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section and Assistant U.S. Attorney Carrie Daughtrey for the Middle District of Tennessee prosecuted the case.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.
For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.justice.gov/psc.