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Fairfax child porn sting nets guilty plea
A North Carolina man pleaded guilty Tuesday to distributing child pornography to a person he believed to be a 12-year-old girl living in Fairfax. The person he sent the child pornography to was actually an undercover FBI agent.
According to U.S. Attorney Chuck Rosenburg's office, Jeffrey Scott Turman, age 42, of Mooresville, N.C., who will be sentenced on Nov. 30, faces a mandatory minimum prison sentence of five years and a maximum sentence of 20 years. Turman also faces at least five years to life of supervised release following his prison sentence. In addition, Turman will be required to register as a sex offender in any jurisdiction in which he lives, works or goes to school.
According to court documents, between April and May 2007, Turman engaged in a number of sexually explicit instant message conversations with the FBI agent, whom he believed to be a 12-year-old Fairfax girl. During the course of these online conversations, Turman distributed 19 images of hardcore child pornography to the fictitious child, in an effort to entice her to perform sexual acts and to transmit sexually explicit images of herself to him, via the Internet, according to a release from Rosenburg's office. Turman also discussed traveling to Virginia to meet the child for illicit sexual conduct, the release stated.
This investigation was conducted by the FBI’s Washington Field Office and Charlotte Field Office. This case is being prosecuted by Special Assistant United States Attorney Edward J. McAndrew, who is on detail from the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section of the Department of Justice.
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