James C. Gibson, a 54-year-old man from Fennimore, Wisconsin, has been sentenced to 18 years in federal prison for producing child pornography. Gibson was found guilty of using minors to engage in sexual activity and recording the activity.
According to a investigation by the Fennimore Police Department, Gibson had been exchanging inappropriate messages with a minor, who was born in 2010. The investigation revealed that Gibson had previously had a video depicting child pornography on his phone. A search of his phone revealed sexually explicit images of the minor, as well as those of a second minor, also born in 2010. The phone also contained sexually explicit videos of unknown minors.
Law enforcement interviewed the minors and both confirmed that Gibson took nude pictures of them at his residence in Fennimore. One of the minors stated that Gibson took nude pictures of them from the summer of 2020 through September 2021.
In sentencing Gibson, U.S. District Judge William M. Conley observed that the defendant groomed multiple 11 and 12-year-old children by using their interests to get close to them, showered them with gifts, and paid for their phone and phone plans. Gibson then coerced two into producing child pornography, and sexually assaulted at least one of them.
Judge Conley found that Gibson manipulated the victims and their families leading to abhorrent abuse, and that he posed a significant risk to minors in the community. Gibson’s sentence includes a life term of supervised release to follow the prison sentence.
The charge against Gibson was the result of an investigation conducted by the Fennimore Police Department, with the assistance of the Wisconsin Division of Criminal Investigation and the Office of the Grant County District Attorney. Assistant U.S. Attorney Laura A. Przybylinski Finn prosecuted this case.
Gibson pleaded guilty to the charge on January 31, 2023. The investigation began in early November 2021, when the mother of a minor contacted the Fennimore Police Department about inappropriate content she found on a phone that had been used by the minor.
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Key Facts
- State: Wisconsin
- Category: Sex Crimes
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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