{"id":52294,"date":"2025-11-19T05:14:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T05:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/52294\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T05:14:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T05:14:05","slug":"texas-man-sentenced-in-jacksonville-court-for-child-exploitation-action-news-jax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/52294\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas man sentenced in Jacksonville court for child exploitation \u2013 Action News Jax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">JACKSONVILLE, Fla.  \u2014 A Texas man was sentenced in Jacksonville federal court to 35 years in prison for producing child sexual abuse material and enticing local minors, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">Evin Scott Young, 39, pleaded guilty in May to targeting four teens in the Jacksonville area, all between 15 and 17 years old. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">Prosecutors say Young used social media to lure the teens from their homes at night and took them to his apartment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">He recorded himself abusing two of them and involved another man in one of the assaults.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/live-breaking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/live-breaking\/\" target=\"_blank\">&gt;&gt;&gt; STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE &lt;&lt;&lt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">Investigators say Young\u2019s crimes came to light after a tip about explicit online messages. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">Homeland Security and the Clay County Sheriff\u2019s Office then found evidence of repeated abuse and illegal recordings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">Assistant U.S. Attorney Kelly S. Milliron brought the case in Jacksonville as part of Project Safe Childhood, a national program to protect kids from abuse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">[DOWNLOAD: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/mobile-apps\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">[SIGN UP: <a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.actionnewsjax.com\/newsletters\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/mobile-apps\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/mobile-apps\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/video\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n<p>Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A Texas man was sentenced in Jacksonville federal court to 35 years in prison for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[18462,4204,694,32909,8219,12627,9693,265,3977,705,9695,3980,3981,9696,3982,9697,116,118,117,2785,9698,9699,3985,712,9702,3986,9703,32910,32114,9704,2391,9705,3993,4360,1934,32911,9709,32912,9711],"class_list":["post-52294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-adult","tag-authority","tag-background","tag-barrister","tag-court","tag-courthouse","tag-courtroom","tag-crime","tag-criminal","tag-enforcement","tag-gavel","tag-guilt","tag-guilty","tag-hammer","tag-hand","tag-innocence","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-judge","tag-judgment","tag-judicial","tag-justice","tag-law","tag-lawyer","tag-legal","tag-litigation","tag-magistrate","tag-male","tag-mallet","tag-man","tag-prosecution","tag-punishment","tag-rule","tag-trial","tag-tribunal","tag-verdict","tag-wisdom","tag-wooden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52294","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=52294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}