Source: Office of United States Attorneys
SCRANTON – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Mitchell Inscho, age 36, a resident of Belvidere, New Jersey, was sentenced to 180 months’ imprisonment by United States District Court Judge Karoline Mehalchick, for attempted online enticement of a minor.
According to the Acting United States Attorney John C. Gurganus, between July 17, 2023 and October 26, 2023, Inscho used the internet and cell phone to request a person who he believed to be a 13-year-old child to engage in sexual conduct, and to produce images of child pornography. During that period, on multiple occasions, Inscho sent obscene photographs of himself to the purported child through social media. On March 13, 2024, Homeland Security agents served a federal search warrant at Inscho’s residence in Belvidere, New Jersey. Pursuant to the warrant, agents seized and later analyzed his cell phones and computers. The forensic analysis uncovered approximately 150 images of child pornography on Inscho’s devices.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by the United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.usdoj.gov/psc.
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