A Cape Coral man has been sentenced to a decade in federal prison for possession of images and videos depicting the sexual abuse of children.
Jason Allen Henning, 43, was arrested after he was caught in a lie during a polygraph test questioning him about contact with minors and unauthorized internet access, according to federal court documents.
At the time of his arrest, in August 2024, Henning was on probation for a prior arrest for distributing material involving the sexual exploitation of minors.
As part of his probation, he was subject to a lifetime of supervised release. Terms of his supervised release dictated that Henning was prohibited from possessing or viewing content depicting children “in the nude and/or in sexually explicit positions,” required to answer questions from his probation officer truthfully and would submit to searches based upon reasonable suspicion that he violated probation.
When a 2023 lie detector test raised such suspicion, Henning’s probation officer conducted a home visit where she saw that a computer in Henning’s home had been modified. A follow-up search in 2024 led to United States Probation Officers seizing multiple digital items from Henning’s home “based on reasonable suspicion of a violation of conditions of supervised release,” according to federal court documents.
The forensic review resulted in the findings of “hundreds of files depicting child sexual abuse material,” prompting an investigation by the FBI.
There were more than 1,000 images and 300 videos depicting the sexual abuse of children on the devices seized from Henning’s home.
Jason Henning is a registered sex offender. In Lee County, there are 948 registered sexual offenders/predators, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s Sexual Offenders and Predators Search.
Henning is sentenced to 10 years in prison for his crime.
Tayeba Hussein is a breaking news reporter for The News-Press & Naples Daily News. Reach her at thussein@usatodayco.com.
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