ABINGDON, Va. – A North Carolina man, who used the popular social media messaging app Snapchat to solicit minors to send him sexually explicit photographs and videos in exchange for expensive gifts, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Abingdon, Acting United States Attorney Daniel P. Bubar, Stanley M. Meador, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Richmond Division, and Grayson County Sheriff Richard Vaughan announced today. Jason Kelly Inman, 40, of Mount Airy, N.C., waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today to a one-count Information charging him with persuading, enticing, and coercing and attempting to persuade, entice, and coerce minors to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing visual depictions of such conduct. At sentencing, Inman faces a term of imprisonment of 15 to 17-and-one-half years, and a mandatory minimum term of supervised release of five years. A sentencing hearing has been scheduled for July 21, 2021 at 2:30 p.m. “This defendant used the internet to prey on vulnerable victims, promising them expensive gifts and cash in order to facilitate this egregious behavior,” United States Attorney Bubar said today. “An unfortunate side effect of living our lives increasingly online is the…
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