HOUSTON - A retired Kansas native who was residing in Panama
has been ordered to serve a 210-month prison term, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan
K. Patrick and Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice
Department’s Criminal Division.
Jebediah Dishman, 72, of Fredonia, Kansas, pleaded guilty
April 6, 2018, to an information charging him with use of sexually explicit
depictions of a minor for importation into the United States. Today, U.S.
District Judge Ewing Werlein Jr. of the Southern District of Texas imposed the
nearly 18-year sentence to be followed by 25 years of supervised release during
which time he will have to comply with numerous requirements designed to
restrict his access to children and the internet. At the hearing today, he was
further ordered to pay a $5,000 fine and $3,000 in restitution. Dishman will
also be ordered to register as a sex offender.
According to admissions made in conjunction with a plea
agreement, in September 2014, Dishman began an approximately six-month trip to
several countries in Southeast Asia. During his trip to Indonesia, another
tourist observed Dishman engaging in suspicious interactions with minors,
masturbating while watching minors and using a tablet to take photographs of a
three-year-old German child. The tourist
confronted Dishman, seized his tablet and turned it over to local authorities.
U.S. law enforcement later reviewed the tablet pursuant to a search warrant and
discovered sexually explicit images of minors, including the German child, as
well as internet searches indicating an interest in the sex trafficking of
minors in Southeast Asia.
The FBI conducted the investigation with the cooperation of
Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations.
Assistant U.S. Attorney (AUSA) Sherri Zack is prosecuting the case along with
Trial Attorneys James E. Burke IV and William M. Grady of the Criminal
Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS). and of the Southern
District of Texas prosecuted the case. AUSA Elly Peirson of the Central
District of Illinois, previously on detail at CEOS, also served as a vital member
of the prosecution team at earlier stages of the litigation.
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