Charles Franklin Hudson, Jr., Child Pornography, Florida 2014

A Jacksonville man has been sentenced to 60 years in federal prison for using a minor child to produce videos depicting child pornography.

Charles Franklin Hudson, Jr., 39, of Jacksonville, was sentenced by Senior United States District Judge Harvey E. Schlesinger on July 16, 2014, after pleading guilty to the charges.

According to court documents, on January 6, 2014, an officer with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office was dispatched to a residence in response to a call regarding allegations of sexual battery on a minor child. Subsequently, detectives from the JSO Sex Crimes Unit interviewed the child, who indicated that she had been sexually abused by Hudson.

Two days later, detectives obtained a search warrant for Hudson’s residence. During the execution of the warrant, officers discovered numerous items of digital media, including several computers, cameras, SD cards, CDs, and DVDs. In the attic, officers recovered a backpack containing cameras, sex devices and restraints, and several pill bottles bearing Hudson’s name. Five SD cards were found inside one of the pill bottles.

Subsequent forensic analyses of the five SD cards revealed approximately 90 video and image files depicting sexually explicit conduct involving Hudson. At least two of these videos, which had been produced by Hudson, depicted him and a minor child engaged in sexually explicit conduct.

The case was investigated by the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations. It was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney D. Rodney Brown.

Hudson was also ordered to serve a life term of supervised release, to register as a sex offender, and to forfeit his electronic media. The case is part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.

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