Christopher Allen-Shinn, Child Pornography, Louisiana 2021

SHREVEPORT, La. - A former Barksdale Air Force Base civilian employee has been sentenced to 17 years and 6 months in prison for receiving and distributing child pornography.

Christopher Allen-Shinn, 44, of Shreveport, Louisiana, pleaded guilty to a single count of receipt of child pornography on March 30, 2022. He was sentenced by United States District Judge Elizabeth E. Foote on [no date specified] to 210 months in prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release.

The charges against Allen-Shinn stem from an investigation by the Office of Special Investigations (OSI) of Barksdale Air Force Base into several cyber-tip reports received from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) in April 2021. The reports indicated that a Dropbox account registered to a BAFB resident was being used to store child pornography on a cloud account.

Investigators with the Louisiana State Attorney General's Office and OSI reviewed 37 images forwarded by NCMEC and confirmed that they contained child pornography. The OSI agents conducted an examination of some of Allen-Shinn's computer devices and storage media and identified multiple images of child pornography.

Further examination of his computer revealed that the defendant received images of child pornography from December 2020 to April 2021. These images included sexually explicit images that the defendant solicited online from minor females in exchange for money.

Allen-Shinn admitted to downloading the child pornography and to soliciting underage females online for sexually explicit images in exchange for money. He was a full-time civilian employee at BAFB at the time of the crimes.

The case was investigated by Barksdale Air Force Base's Office of Special Investigations and the Louisiana State Attorney General's Office, and prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Earl M. Campbell.

The defendant's sentence is a result of his guilty plea and the evidence presented in court. This case serves as a reminder of the serious consequences of child pornography and the importance of protecting our children from exploitation.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdla/pr/former-barksdale-air-force-base-civilian-employee-sentenced-child-pornography-charges