Brown Gets 7 Years for Child Pornography

(Jefferson County, MO) A Jefferson County man, 34 year old Jonathan R. Brown, is being sentenced to seven years in prison, and he's to pay the victim $3,000, after he pled guilty in March to one count of receipt of child pornography. A press release from Missouri's Eastern District of the United States Attorney's Office in St. Louis indicates at least as far back as 2015 Brown was using the dark web to download and view child pornography. In October of 2018 and January of 2019, Brown had child pornography on computers that were accessible via peer to peer file sharing programs. Investigators later seized electronics that contained child pornography. He was sentenced Wednesday. The case stemmed from an FBI investigation into a dark website focused on the production, advertisement and distribution of child exploitation material.