George Michael Brock Jr., Production of Child Pornography, Kentucky 2023

A Georgetown, Kentucky man has been sentenced to a lengthy prison term for producing child pornography, federal authorities announced.

George Michael Brock Jr., 49, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Karen Caldwell to 348 months in prison for producing child pornography. The prison term is approximately 29 years.

The crime occurred while Brock was still subject to sex offender registration requirements, having been previously convicted of using an electronic communication system to procure a minor in 2018. In 2016, law enforcement received reports that Brock used a social media application to lure underage victims into nude modeling.

According to his plea agreement, on January 11, 2023, Brock used Skype to begin communication with a minor victim, directing them to capture sexually explicit images of themselves. The victim complied with Brock's requests and Skype records also revealed similar conversations with multiple other minors.

Brock shared with his friend many of the sexually explicit images that he obtained from the minor victims via the internet.

Under federal law, Brock must serve 85 percent of his prison sentence. Upon his release from prison, he will be under the supervision of the U.S. Probation Office for life.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Mary Melton is prosecuting the case on behalf of the United States. The investigation was conducted by the FBI and Georgetown Police Department with assistance from the Kentucky Division of Probation and Parole.

The U.S. Attorney's Office prosecuted this case as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in 2006 to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-edky/pr/scott-county-man-sentenced-production-child-pornography-0