Eric Duane Elmore, Attempted Online Enticement of a Minor, Kentucky 2021

ASHLAND, Ky. – 48-Year-Old Man Sentenced to 120 Months for Attempted Online Enticement

A Columbus, Ga., man, Eric Duane Elmore, 48, was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison on Monday, June 28, 2021, by U.S. District Judge David L. Bunning, after pleading guilty to attempted online enticement.

According to Elmore’s guilty plea agreement, he admitted to corresponding with a 15-year-old victim, beginning in late 2018. When the conversations became sexual in nature, the victim told a school counselor about the messages, who then contacted law enforcement. Law enforcement then gained authorized control of the online account and continued the conversations with Elmore, which ultimately led to Elmore discussing travel to Kentucky to meet with the victim for sexual purposes.

Elmore pleaded guilty in June 2021. Under federal law, Elmore must serve 85 percent of his prison sentence. Upon his release from prison will be under the supervision of the U.S. Probation Office for 15 years.

The investigation was conducted by the FBI and KSP. The United States was represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Erin Roth.

This case was prosecuted 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. Led by U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), Project Safe Childhood marshals 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.projectsafechildhood.gov.

The exact criminal charges against Elmore were not specified in the article. However, according to the guilty plea agreement, he was charged with and pleaded guilty to attempted online enticement of a minor.

MORE FEDERAL CRIME NEWS

Sex Crimes

Landrell Lemont Jordan, Jr., Armed Sexual Assault, Washington District of Columbia 2006

Oct 28, 2022

Sex Crimes

Kenneth Joseph Coombs, Child Exploitation, Missouri 2016

Jul 19, 2026

Sex Crimes

Joshua Campbell, Child Pornography, Indiana 2019

Dec 20, 2022

Sex Crimes

Taurean Jerome Weber, Child Pornography, Montana 2023

Nov 18, 2022