Source: US FBI
LEXINGTON, Ky. – A Georgetown, Ky., man, George Michael Brock Jr., 49, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Karen Caldwell to 348 months in prison, for the production of child pornography.
In 2016, law enforcement received reports that an adult male, later identified as Brock, used a social media application, MeetMe, to lure underage victims into nude modeling. In 2018, Brock was convicted of use of an electronic communication system to procure a minor. When he was released from prison, in July 2019, Kentucky law subjected Brock to sex offender supervision and registration requirements for five years.
According to his plea agreement, on January 11, 2023, while still subject to sex offender registration requirements, Brock used Skype to begin communication with a minor victim. Brock directed the minor to capture sexually explicit images of themselves. The victim complied with Brock’s requests and Skype records also revealed similar conversations with multiple other minors. Brock shared with his friend many of the sexually explicit images that he obtained from the minor victims via the internet.
Under federal law, Brock must serve 85 percent of his prison sentence. Upon his release from prison, he will be under the supervision of the U.S. Probation Office for life.
Paul McCaffrey, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky; Olivia Olson, Special Agent in Charge, FBI, Louisville Field Division; and Chief Darin Allgood, Georgetown Police Department, jointly announced the sentence.
The investigation was conducted by the FBI and Georgetown Police Department with assistance from the Kentucky Division of Probation and Parole. Assistant U.S. Attorney Mary Melton is prosecuting the case on behalf of the United States.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office prosecuted this case as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. 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.
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