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Description: Abingdon, Virginia criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with suing the social media platforms Snapchat and Grindr to exploit teenage boys from Southwest Virginia.
Jonathan Avery Shumate, age 54, from Warrensville, North Carolina, used both Snapchat and Grindr to contact teenage males attending Oak Hill Academy in Grayson County, Virginia, and offered to provide vapes and vaping materials in exchange for the sixteen- and seventeen-year-old boys sending him sexually explicit photographs and nude videos of themselves. In addition to communicating online, Shumate traveled to Oak Hill Academy to deliver the vaping supplies, and also offered to provide oral sex for the juveniles while requesting that they perform oral sex on him.
United States Attorney Christopher R. Kavanaugh and Stanley M. Meador, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Richmond Division, made the announcement.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Grayson County Sheriff’s Office, and the Ashe County Sheriff’s Office investigated the case.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Lena L. Busscher prosecuted the case.
18 U.S.C. 2422 provides:
Coercion and enticement
(a) Whoever knowingly persuades, induces, entices, or coerces any individual to travel in interstate or foreign commerce, or in any Territory or Possession of the United States, to engage in prostitution, or in any sexual activity for which any person can be charged with a criminal offense, or attempts to do so, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.
(b) Whoever, using the mail or any facility or means of interstate or foreign commerce, or within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States knowingly persuades, induces, entices, or coerces any individual who has not attained the age of 18 years, to engage in prostitution or any sexual activity for which any person can be charged with a criminal offense, or attempts to do so, shall be fined under this title and imprisoned not less than 10 years or for life.
Outcome: 11/01/2022 84 FINAL ORDER OF FORFEITURE as to Jonathan Avery Shumate.. Signed by Senior Judge James P. Jones on 11/1/2022.(flc)
11/01/2022 85 MINUTE ORDER granting 83 Motion for Forfeiture of Property as to Jonathan Avery Shumate (1). Entered by Senior Judge James P. Jones on 11/1/2022. This Notice of Electronic Filing is the Official ORDER for this entry. No document is attached.(JPJ)
Defendant was sentenced to 151 months in prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release and assessed $100.00.
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