A 41-year-old San Diego man is going down for possessing and distributing child pornography in Idaho and California. Jason C. Moffat was sentenced to 84 months in federal prison for his crimes.
The investigation began when the Idaho Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force received a CyberTip from Kik Messenger. A CyberTip is a report submitted to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). NCMEC gathers leads and tips regarding suspected online crimes against children and forwards them to the appropriate law enforcement agencies.
ICAC determined that a Kik account, later identified as belonging to Moffat, had uploaded and distributed child pornography to other users. ICAC obtained a search warrant for the contents of the Kik account and located numerous videos of child pornography, including depictions of infants and toddlers being sexually abused.
Additionally, ICAC seized Moffat’s cellphone and examined it pursuant to a search warrant. They located additional files of child pornography on the cellphone, along with messages where Moffat discussed his sexual interest in children. Moffat lived in Idaho when he committed the crimes, and later moved to California, where he was arrested.
The U.S. Attorney for the District of Idaho, Josh Hurwit, commended the investigation by the Idaho ICAC Task Force, the San Diego ICAC Task Force, and the United States Marshals Service, which led to the charge. Assistant U.S. Attorney Kassandra McGrady prosecuted the case.
Moffat will spend 84 months behind bars, after which he will be subject to 15 years of supervised release. He was also ordered to pay $3,000 in restitution to a victim in the images he possessed. Moffat will be required to register as a sex offender as a result of the conviction.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. As part of Project Safe Childhood, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Idaho and the Idaho Attorney General’s Office partner to marshal federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.justice.gov/psc.
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Key Facts
- State: Idaho
- Agency: DOJ USAO
- Category: Sex Crimes
- Source: Official Source ↗
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