A Rogersville man is being held without bond in the Greene County Jail on federal charges of sexual exploitation of children.
According to the probable cause affidavit, Jacob Ethan Patterson, 26, created child pornography with three children, two of them approximately three to five years old, while the third was 12.
The Southwest Missouri Cyber Crimes Task Force was tipped off by a Canadian law enforcement official who had arrested a man named Daniel Bergsma who had Snapchat conversations with Patterson, the affidavit said. The authorities were able to recover the conversations because Bergsma recorded them.
The recordings of the younger children featured them nude and in one instance showed an adult male pressing his sex organ against one of the girls.
The Jasper County child was fully clothed in most of the images, according to the affidavit, though in one Patterson was rubbing himself through his pants.
In that media, the camera captures both Casting_Cloud95' s (Patterson's name on SnapChat) act of grabbing his genitals and Jane Doe Three as she lays on the couch with her upper buttocks exposed.
Investigators were able to determine the 12-year-old was from Jasper County after finding a comment on Patterson's Facebook page, checking the Facebook page of the person who left the comment and using public images on that page that showed the same furniture that had been depicted in the images.
When investigators questioned Patterson, he admitted he produced the child pornography.
This affiant showed PATTERSON sanitized versions of the images of Jane Doe Three. PATTERSON identified Jane Doe Three and admitted he produced the images. He confirmed that the video depicted him masturbating while Jane Doe Three was in the background with the top of her buttocks exposed. He said this occurred at Jane Doe Three's home.
Patterson also acknowledged creating the pornography involving the younger children, though he could not remember which child he had pressed himself against.
Authorities are in the process of conducting a forensic search of Patterson's phone, which he told them contained more child pornography images.
The crimes took place between May 5 and November 1, according to the charging information.
Patterson's initial appearance is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Wednesday in U. S. District Court in Springfield.
1 comment:
I HOPE THEY THREW THE MAXIMUM SENTENCE AT THIS AND ANY OTHER PEDOPHILES.
LET HIM ROT IN HIS JAIL CELL AS HE HIDES IN PRISON - FROM THE REST OF HIS PRISON BUDDIES. THESE PEOPLE ARE THE LOWEST OF THE LOWS IN OUR SOCIETY. ANYONE THAT WOULD HURT AN INNOCENT CHILD - DESERVES THE SEVEREST PUNISHMENT THAT SOCIETY CAN DISH OUT...
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