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Former Virginia Federal Employee Sentenced to More Than 17 Years in Prison for Producing Child Pornography
A Woodbridge, Virginia man was sentenced today to 210 months in prison followed by 10 years of supervised release for producing child pornography.
Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney G. Zachary Terwilliger of the Eastern District of Virginia, Assistant Director in Charge Nancy McNamara of the FBI’s Washington Field Office and Chief Michael L. Brown of the Alexandria Police Department made the announcement.
David Edward De Vere, 53, a former Equal Employment Specialist at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, pleaded guilty on Sept. 27, 2018 before U.S. District Judge Liam O’Grady of the Eastern District of Virginia to production of child pornography.
According to admissions made in connection with his guilty plea, De Vere met and began exchanging sexually explicit messages online with a 16-year-old minor living in Colorado in March 2017. During the course of these communications, De Vere induced the minor to take and send him multiple images of the minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct. De Vere also encouraged another adult with access to the minor in Colorado to sexually abuse the minor, and then traveled to Colorado in April 2017 in an unsuccessful attempt to sexually abuse the minor himself.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-virginia-federal-employee-sentenced-more-17-years-prison-producing-child-pornography