Gabriel Monte | Lubbock Avalanche-Journal A federal judge this week handed down a 30-year prison sentence to a 27-year-old Alabama man who admitted to coercing and blackmailing a 14-year-old Shallowater girl to sending him images of child sexual abuse. Bo Jack Kelley of Cullman, Alabama, pleaded guilty in August to a count of production of child pornography and was sentenced on Thursday by a U.S. District Judge in Lubbock to 360 months in prison. After his release, he will be on supervised release for 20 years. Kelley’s charge stems from an FBI investigation after the sexually explicit videos of the girl were sent to her mother’s social media account. Court documents state Kelley, using a false name, began an online relationship with the girl in 2019. The girl told him she was 14 and he told her he was 19. As the relationship developed, Kelley pressured the girl into sending him sexually explicit videos of herself. Materials posted to Snapchat typically expire after a certain period of time but can be saved using screen recording tools. Kelley also sent the girl videos of himself performing sexual acts and pictures that showed his face.In November, Kelley created another Snapchat account and told the girl to send him more explicit videos and threatened to send the…
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Alabama man who blackmailed 14-year-old South Plains girl sentenced to 30 years
