A former preschool teacher from Abilene, Texas, was sentenced to 30 years in a federal prison for producing child pornography that involved two young children, 12 and 13 years old. Mark Penfield Eichorn, 28, received the maximum sentence of the possible Jam Herring Herring Herring Historing Herring Eichorn also ordered him to pay $ 66,087.50 in the restitution.
Eichorn was accused in June 2024 and declared himself guilty in October 2024 of the production of child pornography. Eichorn admitted that he paid two young people, aged 12 and 13, to record videos of themselves performing sexual acts between them. In his sentence, Judge Hendrix told Eichorn that the maximum sentence is justified, especially for “public protection.” By imposing maximum prayer, Judge Hendrix said: “I have to make many difficult decisions. This is not one of them.”
The interim prosecutor of the United States for the northern district of Texas, Chad E. Mecham, announced the sentence on Thursday, adding: “Stop horrific acts against children, such as those in this case, is a central mission of this office. Children’s predators, and that victims and their families find some measure of comfort know that this abuser will be out of the streets for a long time.”
According to judicial documents, Eichorn admitted to having fought with the wishes of children of sexual aggression since 2019. Duration this time, he continued working with children. The preschool teacher admitted to having participated in commercial groups of child pornography on several Internet platforms, such as Kik and Telegram. Eichorn confessed that he owns and exchanges prepubescent child pornography online. Among the disturbing material was a video that involved a child between the ages of 10 and 12 years involved in sexual explicit behavior.
At the time of his judgment, Eichorn was a teacher at a private school in Abilene. According to the authorities, Eichorn had contact with one of the children’s victims in this case and sacrifices to send him $ 100 a week to be his “sugar dad.” Eichorn admitted that he uploaded to both victims hundreds of dollars to produce videos of themselves involved in a sexomally explicit behavior.
Joint investigation into Eichorn’s activities involved special agents assigned to ICE National Security investigations: the Abilene residents agency, the Abilene Police Department and the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office in Georgia. The United States assistant prosecutor, Whitney Ohlhausen, prosecuted the case.
The case was presented as part of Project Safe Childhood, a national initiative, which was launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice, to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.
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