A federal judge has sentenced a Pennsylvania man to 40 years in prison for the sexual exploitation of an Alabama girl. <\/p>\n
Robert John Newman Jr., 29, pleaded guilty in October to sexual exploitation of children, coercion and enticement of a minor and travel with the intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct.<\/p>\n
In addition to the 40 years in prison, U.S. District Judge Anna M. Manasco ordered Newman to a life term of supervised release once his sentence is complete, and $5,000 special assessment, Northern District of Alabama Acting U.S. Attorney Catherine L. Crosby announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n
From December 2024 through January 2025, according to court documents, Newman targeted the 14-year-old victim online through social media.<\/p>\n
He befriended her through deceit and relentlessly coerced her into sending him child sexual abuse material, authorities said. <\/p>\n
On Jan. 4, 2025, Newman traveled over 700 miles from his home in Glenshaw, Pa. to the teen victim\u2019s home in Winston County to engage in unlawful sexual activity with her.<\/p>\n
The victim\u2019s mother found Newman, whom she did not know, on the bed in her daughter\u2019s bedroom and confronted him. Newman fled the residence and went back to Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n
Later that month, on Jan. 22, 2025, Newman was arrested in Pennsylvania on Alabama state warrants. His phone was seized during his arrest. <\/p>\n
After obtaining a federal search warrant for his phone, FBI agents found communication between Newman and the victim, as well as child sexual abuse material involving the victim. <\/p>\n
Evidence from the iPhone showed that the Alabama victim was not his only victim who investigators identified as an 11-year-old girl in Colorado.<\/p>\n
The FBI Birmingham Field Office investigated the case along with the FBI in Pittsburgh and Denver, the Winston County Sheriff\u2019s Office, and the Shaler Township Police Department in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n
Assistant U.S. Attorney R. Leann White prosecuted the case. <\/p>\n
Anyone with information on the possible sexual exploitation of a child is asked to contact law enforcement. To alert the FBI Birmingham Office, call 205-326-6166. Reports can also be filed with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) or online at www.cybertipline.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A federal judge has sentenced a Pennsylvania man to 40 years in prison for the sexual exploitation of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-124420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-pennsylvania","9":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","10":"tag-pennsylvania-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}