A distressing case has come to a close as a San Angelo man, impersonating an 11-year-old online, has been sentenced to a half-century behind bars after convincing a 9-year-old girl to produce child sexual abuse material. According to a statement released by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Texas, James Wilson, 57, will serve 50 years in federal prison following his guilty plea to charges of Production and Transportation of Child Pornography.
The indictment for Wilson came down in September, and by December 2024, he had pleaded guilty to the damning charges. Pleaded guilty on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge James Wesley Hendrix sentenced Wilson to 600 months and ordered him to pay $106,500 in restitution to the victims traumatized by their abuse. According to court documents, Wilson used a social media application to transport the abusive material over the internet and coerced at least two videos out of the minor victim.
Moreover, during the investigation, Wilson admitted to having viewed and downloaded child pornography for several years. His possession wasn't limited to these instances. He also had a substantial collection of child pornography videos involving multiple identifiable victims. Suffering from their experiences, minors from 13 known child pornography series sought restitution, which the court acknowledged in the form of the six-figure sum awarded for their trauma.
The extensive investigation, which resulted in Wilson's downfall, was led by the FBI’s Dallas Field Division’s San Angelo Resident Agency and the local Sheriff's Office in Tom Green County. Assistant U.S. Attorney Whitney Ohlhausen was credited with prosecuting the case.
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