Joseph Skylar Weeks, Child Pornography, Alabama 2024

A Calhoun County man has been sentenced to prison for possessing a sexually explicit video of a child.

Joseph Skylar Weeks, 32, of Jacksonville, Alabama, was sentenced to 97 months in prison followed by 30 years of supervised release, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and FBI Special Agent in Charge Carlton L. Peeples.

Weeks pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography in June.

According to the plea agreement, on August 7, 2022, an undercover law enforcement officer responded to an ad posted by Weeks on a social media application.

Between August 2022 and October 2022, Weeks communicated with the UC, whom he believed to be a 14-year-old girl, about arranging a time to meet.

On October 13th, Weeks arrived at the meeting location and was arrested by Homewood police officers.

A search warrant was obtained for Weeks' cell phone, where investigators found a video containing child sexual abuse material.

This conviction will require Weeks to register as a sex offender in accordance with the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).

The FBI investigated the case along with the Homewood Police Department and the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel S. McBrayer prosecuted the case.

The case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched by the Department of Justice in May 2006 to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndal/pr/calhoun-county-man-sentenced-more-eight-years-prison