Defendant Posed as Younger Lady to Goal Sufferer
WASHINGTON –Christopher Younger, 31, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced as we speak to 26 years in jail on one depend of sexual exploitation of a minor and second-degree little one sexual abuse for abusing a minor little one, introduced U.S. Lawyer Matthew M. Graves, Wayne A. Jacobs, Particular Agent in Cost of the FBI Washington Discipline Workplace Prison Division, and Robert J. Contee III, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Division (MPD).
Younger pleaded responsible on Aug. 23, 2022, within the U.S. District Courtroom for the District of Columbia. Along with the jail time period, the Honorable Amit P. Mehta ordered 15 years of supervised launch and ordered Younger to register as a intercourse offender.
In keeping with court docket paperwork, Younger used a messaging software to succeed in out to a 10-year outdated little one in June 2019 pretending to be a younger woman. Within the messages that Younger exchanged with the sufferer, he blackmailed her for the aim of sexually abusing her. Whereas pretending to be a younger woman, Younger messaged the sufferer, stating that if the sufferer didn’t have interaction in sexual acts with Younger, embarrassing images of the sufferer can be disseminated to the sufferer’s household. Younger additionally photographed his sexual abuse of the sufferer. One in every of these images was recovered from Younger’s e-mail account.
The sufferer reported the abuse to her mom and Younger was arrested on July 23, 2019. He has been in custody since his arrest.
This case was investigated by the FBI Washington Discipline Workplace’s Little one Exploitation and Human Trafficking Job Drive. The duty drive consists of FBI brokers, together with different federal brokers and detectives from northern Virginia and the District of Columbia. The duty drive is charged with investigating and bringing federal expenses in opposition to people engaged within the exploitation of kids and people engaged in human trafficking.
This case was introduced as a part of the Division of Justice’s Mission Protected Childhood initiative. In February 2006, the Lawyer Basic created Mission Protected Childhood, a nationwide initiative designed to guard kids from on-line exploitation and abuse. Led by the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplaces, Mission Protected Childhood marshals federal, state, and native assets to raised find, apprehend, and prosecute people who exploit kids by way of the Web, in addition to determine and rescue victims. For extra details about Mission Protected Childhood, please go to www.projectsafechildhood.gov.
In asserting the plea, U.S. Lawyer Graves, Particular Agent in Cost Jacobs, and Chief Contee counseled the work of those that investigated the case from FBI Little one Exploitation and Human Trafficking Job Drive, in addition to the MPD’s Narcotics and Particular Investigation Division, Human Trafficking Unit. In addition they expressed appreciation for the efforts of those that dealt with the case for the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace, together with Paralegal Specialist Alexis Spencer-Anderson, Sufferer/Witness Advocate Yvonne Bryant, and Assistant U.S. Lawyer Janani Iyengar.
