{"id":53873,"date":"2023-08-17T16:24:36","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T23:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=53873"},"modified":"2023-08-17T16:24:36","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T23:24:36","slug":"pedophile-sentenced-to-15-years-for-sexually-exploiting-children-some-who-appear-to-be-as-young-as-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=53873","title":{"rendered":"Pedophile Sentenced to 15 Years for Sexually Exploiting Children, Some Who Appear to be as Young as Five"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"node-body\">\n<div class=\"field-formatter--text-default field-text-format--wysiwyg text-formatted field_body\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3918 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Department-of-Justice-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Department-of-Justice-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Department-of-Justice-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Department-of-Justice.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>A Virginia man was sentenced Wednesday to 16 years in prison for the sexual exploitation of children and possessing child sexual abuse pornography, according to officials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">According to court documents, Anthony Benton, 21, formerly of Manassas, came to the attention of law enforcement when he bought child sexual abuse material, including videos depicting the sexual abuse of children who appear to be as young as five years old, over Telegram.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"David Benton arrested for 37 Counts of child sexual abuse change\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sfGfWYrO_tg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">Law enforcement executed a search warrant at his home and discovered that Benton had used Omegle, a live-streaming video application, to regularly produce child sexual abuse material for about three years beginning in 2020. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2811 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Homeland-Security-Investigations-Badge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"283\" \/>Benton engaged in sexual conversations in live video calls with approximately 1,000 girls aged 7 to 17 years old. In some of those calls, he enticed the girls to engage in sexually explicit conduct. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">He screen-recorded and saved approximately 72 videos without the minor victims\u2019 knowledge. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">One of the videos shows Benton texting a 10-year-old minor to deceive her into believing that he was 15 years old. When she revealed her age, Benton promised their conversation was \u201cjust between us.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">HSI investigated the case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">Trial Attorney McKenzie Hightower of the Criminal Division\u2019s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section prosecuted the case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Justice Department.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/psc\">www.justice.gov\/psc<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Virginia man was sentenced Wednesday to 16 years in prison for the sexual exploitation of children and possessing child sexual abuse pornography, according to officials. 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