PIKEVILLE, Ky.- A Pikeville woman, Christina Brook Mitchell,
31, was sentenced on Friday to 420 months in federal prison, by U.S. District
Judge Karen Caldwell, for production and distribution of child pornography.
Mitchell previously admitted that she took explicit
photographs of two minor female victims and sent the images via Facebook
Messenger to Johnathan Manigault. Mitchell admitted that Manigault instructed
her how to take the images and that she agreed to photograph additional
underage victims for Manigault.
Manigault, Mitchell’s co-defendant, will be sentenced on
April 10.
Under federal law, Mitchell must serve 85 percent of her
prison sentence and will be under the supervision of the U.S. Probation Office
for life.
Robert M. Duncan, Jr., United States Attorney for the
Eastern District of Kentucky, and James Robert Brown, Special Agent in Charge
for FBI, Louisville Field Office, jointly made the announcement.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a
nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual
exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led
by U.S. Attorneys' Offices and the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and
Obscenity Section (CEOS), Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and
local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who
exploit children via the Internet as well as to identify and rescue victims.
For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit
www.projectsafechildhood.gov.
The investigation was directed by the FBI. The United States
was represented by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Jenna Reed.
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