Georgia Man Sentenced To 15 Years In Federal Prison For Attempted Production Of Child Sexual Abuse Material

Jacksonville, Florida – Chief United States District Judge Marcia Morales Howard has sentenced Troy Lyn Everett (63, Georgia) to 15 years in federal prison for attempted production of child sexual abuse material. Everett was also ordered to serve a 10-year term of supervised release and register as a sex offender. He pleaded guilty in March 2025.  

According to court records, from August 22 through October 25, 2024, Everett communicated with an undercover detective from the Nassau County Sheriff’s Office who was posing as a 14-year-old child on an online messaging application. Everett engaged the detective in a variety of sexually explicit messages and expressed a desire to have sex with the child. Everett asked the undercover officer multiple times for sexually explicit photos and videos of who Everett believed to be a 14-year-old girl. Additionally, Everett discussed traveling to meet the minor for sex. Everett biked more than an hour from his residence in Georgia to an Atlanta bus station where he purchased a bus ticket to Jacksonville. Upon his arrival in Jacksonville, he was arrested and admitted to traveling for sex and making repeated requests for sexually explicit photos and videos from a person who he believed to be a 14-year-old child. 

This case was investigated by Homeland Security Investigations, the Nassau County Sherriff’s Office, and the Northeast Florida Intercept Task Force. This case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney John Cannizzaro.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, 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, Project Safe Childhood 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 Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.justice.gov/psc.