INDIANAPOLIS — An Indianapolis woman has been sentenced to 200 months in prison after pleading guilty to advertising and possession of child sexual abuse materials.
According to court documents, a 35-year-old woman used an adults-only chatroom website to advertise and sell child sexual abuse material from May 21, 2022 until Feb. 4, 2023.
The DOJ said the suspect uploaded more than 800 "advertisements" selling other users access to images and videos of child sexual abuse material in exchange payments through Venmo or CashApp.
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Of those 800 advertisements, officials said 400 contained images of the sexual abuse of children. The suspect told some buyers that the material she had for sale included images of the sexual abuse of babies as young as seven months old.
“A civilized society is judged in large part by how we care for our children. This defendant demonstrated her utter disregard for children’s dignity or safety, instead working to profit from spreading depictions of their vile abuse,” said Zachary A. Myers, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana. “Criminals who pollute the internet with these horrific videos and images of abuse will be found and held accountable. Our office will continue to use every tool and partnership we can to identify, investigate, and prosecute these dangerous predators.”
The suspect was ordered to register as a sex offender and pay $13,000 in restitution.
The U.S. Secret Service investigated this case.
