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Law & Crime reports:
A 31-year-old church deacon in Florida will spend more than two decades behind bars for secretly filming young boys using the bathroom inside the church where he served and possessing “hundreds, if not thousands” of child pornography images and videos, prosecutors said.
On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Allen Winsor sentenced Jonathan High, a former deacon of The Antioch Revival Church in Perry, Fla., to 22 years in federal prison. Perry is about 60 miles southeast of Tallahassee.
Following his incarceration, High will be required to spend the rest of his life on supervised release and register as a sex offender.
From the Justice Department:
In August 2021, law enforcement officers received a Cybertip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) that a user of a cloud storage account uploaded files constituting child pornography.
An investigation revealed the account was High’s. Law enforcement officers obtained a search warrant for High’s cell phones and desktop computer, and after an examination of their contents, confirmed that High was in possession of multiple child pornography images and videos that depicted prepubescent boys engaged in sex acts or exposing their genitals in a lascivious manner.
Further investigation revealed that some of these images and videos were produced by High personally; High produced separate video recordings of two young boys using the restroom in a Perry, Florida church where High served as a deacon.
This conviction was the result of a joint investigation conducted by Homeland Security Investigations, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, and the North Florida Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force.
Jonathan High, 31, a deacon of a Perry church, has been convicted of 2 counts of use of a child to produce child pornography and was sentenced to 22 years in prison.https://t.co/PHswLb0Cqt pic.twitter.com/Q1Xrr4uVI2
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