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Date: 05-28-2020
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United States of America v. Ryan Daniel Crawford
Case Number: 3:19-cr-05018-MDH
Judge: M. Douglas Harpool
Court: United States District Court for the
Plaintiff's Attorney: United States District Attorney’s Office
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Springfield, MO - The United States of America charged Ryan Daniel Crawford with producing child pornography.
A former Pineville, Missouri, pastor was sentenced in federal court today for producing child pornography.
Ryan Daniel Crawford, 33, of Austin, Arkansas, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge M. Douglas Harpool to 25 years in federal prison without parole. The court also ordered Crawford to pay $2,500 in restitution to one of the victims of his molestation, and sentenced Crawford to 20 years on supervised release following incarceration.
On Sept. 16, 2019, Crawford pleaded guilty to one count of producing child pornography. Crawford admitted that he had touched the 9-year-old victim’s genitals with his hands, and that he had photographed her genitals with his cell phone while she was sleeping. Investigators located sexually explicit images of the child victim on Crawford’s cell phone.
Crawford was the assistant pastor at First Baptist Church in Pineville for approximately seven years until his arrest on state charges in 2017. He was indicted by a federal grand jury in 2019 and the state charges were dismissed. Crawford has remained in federal custody since his arrest on the federal indictment.
This case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Ami Harshad Miller. It was investigated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the Southwest Missouri Cyber Crime Task Force, and the Pineville, Mo., Police Department.
Project Safe Childhood
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by the United States Attorneys' Offices and the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.usdoj.gov/psc . For more information about Internet safety education, please visit www.usdoj.gov/psc and click on the tab "resources."
SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN
Outcome: Defendant was committed to the BOP for 300 months; followed by 20 years supervised release. No fine. JVTA waived. $100 MPA. Restitution imposed in the amount of $2,500Govt will submit a restitution judgment. Special conditions of supervised release imposed. Dfts objection to the polygraph condition is overruled. Court recommends a sex offender treatment program at a suitable SOMP facility and dft be given a complete assessment to determine a residential or non-residential treatment program. If defendant is placed in a non-residential treatment program, Court recommends dft be designated to Seagoville FCI or Marion USP. Dft advised of right to appeal. Dft remanded to custody.
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