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Date: 08-13-2021
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Case Number: 6:20-cr-00004-CHB-HAI
Judge: Claria Horn Boom
Court: United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky (Laurel County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: United States Attorney’s Office
Defendant's Attorney:
Description: London, Kentucky criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with production of child pornography.
In October 2020, Amos Sparkman, age 26, started an online relationship with a minor female using the social media platform Snapchat. Sparkman confessed to a sexual relationship with the minor and possessed a video of the minor performing sexual acts on Sparkman. Sparkman admitted that he used the minor victim to produce visual depictions of the minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct and that the depictions were then transported using Snapchat.
Sparkman was previously convicted of Harassment and Physical Contact with a child and of Sexual Abuse, Second Degree of another minor. Sparkman was a registered sex offender at the time he produced child pornography with his third minor victim. When law enforcement arrested Sparkman, he stated he was planning to meet another girl.
Sparkman was indicted in January 2020 and entered a guilty plea on March 2, 2021.
Under federal law, Sparkman must serve 85 percent of his prison sentence, and upon his release from prison will be under the supervision of the U.S. Probation Office for 10 years.
Carlton S. Shier, IV, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky; Edward J. Gray-, Acting Special Agent in Charge, FBI, Louisville Field Office, and Colonel Phillip Burnett, Jr., Commissioner of the Kentucky State Police, jointly announced the sentence.
The investigation was conducted by the FBI with assistance from the Kentucky State Police. The United States was represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jenna E. Reed.
Outcome: JUDGMENT UPON PLEA OF GUILTY as to Amos Sparkman (1), Count(s) 1, 324 MONTHS IMPRISONMENT; 10 YEARS SUPERVISED RELEASE; $100 SPECIAL ASSESSMENT; $5,000 AVAA ASSESSMENT. The court makes the following recommendations to the Bureau of Prisons: That the defendant participate in a sex offender treatment program. participate in a substance abuse treatment program. Participate in a mental health program. Participate in a job skills and/or vocational training program. That the defendant be designated to a facility closest to his residence for which he qualifies, secondary to the above treatment recommendations. Defendant to follow all standard and special conditions of supervision. (cc: Paper copy w/ NOE to COR & copy of SOR; Electronic copy to USP and original SOR returned to USP; Electronic copy to USM, FLU, Finance), Amos Sparkman terminated.. Signed by Judge Claria Horn Boom on 08/06/2021. (KJA) (Entered: 08/06/2021)
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