Raven Ainesis Pointer, Child Pornography, Missouri 2024

ST. LOUIS – A St. Louis County woman has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for producing child sexual abuse material involving a two-year-old.

Raven Ainesis Pointer, 27, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Rodney W. Sippel on Tuesday for producing child pornography.

According to the indictment, Pointer pleaded guilty in October to one count of production of child pornography. Pointer admitted coercing the victim in 2022 into engaging in sexual conduct and using her phone to produce videos containing child sexual abuse material.

On six occasions, Pointer recorded the sexual abuse of the toddler and shared it with others for their perverse sexual entertainment, a sentencing memo filed by Assistant U.S. Attorney Tiffany Becker says. In jail, Pointer continued to try and contact the child and berated the child’s father for seeking restitution, the memo says.

The production and sharing of child sexual abuse material is an appalling betrayal of human decency, said ICE Homeland Security Investigations Kansas City Special Agent in Charge Mark Zito. Crimes like this are not only horrific, but they are also unforgivable.

The investigation began in August 2023 in Montgomery, Alabama, where Homeland Security Investigations agents learned that a man who had been distributing child sexual abuse material had received videos involving a two-year-old victim from Pointer. Investigators then tracked down Pointer in St. Louis.

Homeland Security Investigations and the St. Louis County Police Department investigated the case.

This case was brought 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. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.justice.gov/psc.

Pointer will also face supervised release for life after serving her 25-year sentence. She was ordered to pay $15,000 in restitution.

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