Austin Jeremy Bobo, Child Exploitation, Alabama 2023

A convicted sex offender was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for child exploitation charges in a case investigated by the FBI and local law enforcement agencies.

Austin Jeremy Bobo, 34, of Trussville, Alabama, was sentenced to 180 months in prison followed by a lifetime term of supervised release by Chief U.S. District Judge L. Scott Coogler. Bobo pleaded guilty to transportation of child pornography in May.

The investigation revealed that Bobo uploaded numerous images of child pornography to a social media account between November 2019 and October 2020. A social media outlet submitted a CyberTip to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) relating to the account, which led to the discovery of Bobo's involvement.

Bobo was previously convicted in the Circuit Court for Lee County, Alabama, of an offense related to child pornography in March 2016.

The case was investigated by the FBI Birmingham’s Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force (CEHTTF), the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA), and the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office. Assistant U.S. Attorney John M. Hundscheid prosecuted the case.

The case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched by the federal government in May 2006 to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.

The exact date of the crime was between November 2019 and October 2020, and the sentencing occurred on an unspecified date. The defendant's name is Austin Jeremy Bobo, and the crime is transportation of child pornography. The city and state are Trussville, Alabama.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndal/pr/convicted-sex-offender-sentenced-15-years-prison-child-exploitation-charges