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Date: 03-01-2023
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United States of America v. Wayne Edward McNutt
Case Number: 2:21-cr-00369
Judge: Joy Flowers Conti
Court: United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (Allegheny County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: United States Attorney’s Office in Pittsburgh
Defendant's Attorney:
Description: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with
From Feb. 25, 2021 until July 26, 2021, Wayne Edward McNutt, age 58, from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, communicated with an individual whom he believed had a child available for sexual activity. In reality, McNutt was communicating with law enforcement agents acting in an undercover capacity to investigate the online sexual exploitation of children. During the communications, McNutt made plans to meet the purported child for sex and solicited advice from the child’s purported guardian about how to make the child trust him and feel comfortable during McNutt’s intended sexual abuse of the child. On two occasions, McNutt sent to the undercover agent images and a video depicting child sexual abuse. Ultimately, McNutt sent money for the purported child and the child’s guardian to travel from another state to Pittsburgh, where McNutt had booked a hotel room for all of them. McNutt was arrested by law enforcement on July 26, 2021, when he arrived to meet the purported child at the hotel that he had reserved. McNutt also possessed a cell phone that contained additional videos of minors, including prepubescent minors, engaging in sexually explicit conduct.
At the time of his arrest, McNutt was on Pennsylvania state probation for a 2012 conviction for the aggravated indecent assault of a child. In imposing sentence, Judge Conti stated that lifetime supervised release was necessary to protect the community from McNutt’s very serious and repetitive criminal conduct.
Assistant United States Attorney Heidi M. Grogan prosecuted this case on behalf of the government.
United States Attorney Chung commended the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the FBI Pittsburgh Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force, the FBI Albany Mid-State Child Exploitation Task Force, and the FBI Albany Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force for conducting the investigation that led to the prosecution of McNutt.
18 U.S.C. 2422(b) ATTEMPTED COERCION AND ENTICEMENT OF A MINOR
(1)
18 U.S.C. 2252(a)(2) and 2252(b)(1) DISTRIBUTION AND ATTEMPTED DISTRIBUTION OF MATERIAL DEPICTING THE SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF A MINOR
(2)
18 U.S.C. 2252(a)(2) and 2252(b)(1) DISTRIBUTION AND ATTEMPTED DISTRIBUTION OF MATERIAL DEPICTING THE SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF A MINOR
(3)
18 U.S.C. 2252(a)(4)(B) and 2252(b)(2) POSSESSION OF MATERIAL DEPICTING THE SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF A MINOR
(4)
Outcome: Defendant was sentenced to 25 years incarceration and life time supervised release.
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