A Manassas, Virginia man pleaded guilty today to using the
Internet to pay women to sexually abuse children as young as six years old in
the Philippines while he produced numerous images of the abuse.
Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the
Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Acting U.S. Attorney Tracy
Doherty-McCormick for the Eastern District of Virginia and Special Agent in
Charge Patrick J. Lechleitner of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s
(ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Washington, D.C., made the
announcement.
According to court documents, from at least October 2011
until February 2012, Dwayne Stinson, 53, used an electronic payment service to
pay women in the Philippines he was chatting with to sexually abuse children
while he directed the abuse. He admitted that some of the children were as
young as six or seven years old. The defendant contemporaneously produced
numerous screenshot images of the abuse and stored them on his computer.
Stinson pleaded guilty to one count of production of child
pornography before U.S. District Judge Liam O’Grady. His sentencing is
scheduled for Aug. 24, 2018.
The Prince William County Police Department and Northern
Virginia/District of Columbia Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force
(NOVA/DC ICAC) assisted in the investigation. CEOS Trial Attorney James E.
Burke IV and Assistant U.S. Attorney Whitney Russell for the Eastern District
of Virginia are prosecuting the case.
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