{"id":398991,"date":"2026-09-13T23:40:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T23:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/398991\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T23:40:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T23:40:26","slug":"man-sentenced-in-tampa-to-25-years-in-federal-prison-for-producing-csam-coercing-a-minor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/398991\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sentenced in Tampa to 25 years in federal prison for producing CSAM, coercing a minor"},"content":{"rendered":"

The man from Oregon was arrested in 2025 following an investigation by the FBI and the Sarasota Police Department.<\/p>\n

TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Months after a man from Oregon pleaded guilty to charges of production of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and coercion and enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity, a judge sentenced him to 25 years in federal prison.<\/p>\n

Thursday, the Department of Justice said that U.S. District Judge John Badalamenti, sentenced Aleksandr Golovchenko, 50, to 300 months behind bars. His imprisonment will be followed by a lifetime of supervised release.<\/p>\n


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Court documents indicate that on Feb. 2025, Golovchenko met a 12-year-old girl online. Then, between Feb. and April of that year, Golovchenko “persuaded, induced, enticed, and coerced the victim to engage in sexual activity” on Snapchat, a social media platform.<\/p>\n

The DOJ also said that Golovchenko coerced the girl to engage in sexually explicit behavior “for the purpose of producing a visual depiction of that conduct.”<\/p>\n

According to U.S. Attorney Greg Kehoe, who made the DOJ’s announcement, Golovchenko was prosecuted for three counts of production of CSAM and two counts of coercion of a minor to engage in sexual activity.<\/p>\n

Golovchenko pleaded guilty on April 29, 2026, the DOJ noted.<\/p>\n

The investigation was led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Sarasota Police Department, the DOJ said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The man from Oregon was arrested in 2025 following an investigation by the FBI and the Sarasota Police…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-398991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}