Casey Patrick Henrietta Sentenced Over 24 Years For Attempted Production Of Child Pornography

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – On February 27, 2025, Casey Patrick Henrietta, 27, of Knoxville, Tennessee, was sentenced to 292 months by the Honorable Katherine A. Crytzer, United States District Judge, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Knoxville.  Following Henrietta’s imprisonment, he will be on supervised release for life, and he will be required to register with state sex offender registries and comply with special sex offender conditions during his supervised release.

As part of the plea agreement filed with the court, Henrietta agreed to plead guilty to one count of attempted production of child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2251 (a) and (e).

According to court documents, in December 2022, Homeland Security Investigation (HSI)-Knoxville Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task force, was contacted by the New Castle County Police Department in Delaware regarding online production of child pornography of a nine-year-old minor child.  The investigation revealed that the solicitation of child pornography of the minor child began when he was nine years of age.  The solicitation of the child pornography continued for four years until recently when the child mother found the child pornography in communications between Henrietta and the child.

The investigation revealed that Henrietta and the child began communicating through a game on the PlayStation Network platform.  Later, Henrietta moved the conversations with the child to social networking applications where he continued to entice the minor child to engage in unlawful sexual activity for images/videos. 

U.S. Attorney Francis M. Hamilton, III of the Eastern District of Tennessee and Special Agent in Charge Rena Saoud of HSI made the announcement.

Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer Kolman represented the United States.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood (PSC), a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006, by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.  Led by the United States Attorney’s Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, PSC marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims.  For more information about PSC, please visit www.justice.gov/psc.

For more information about internet safety education, please visit www.justice.gov/psc/resources.html and click on the tab "resources.”

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