Austin Couple Sentenced For Producing Sexually Explicit Videos And Images Of Two Girls

United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the sentencing of ANTHONY DOANE EDGE, 36, and DEBORAH SUSAN EDGE, 37, each of whom pleaded guilty to manufacturing child pornography.  The defendants were sentenced yesterday before Senior U.S. District Judge Michael Davis in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minn.                               

According to the defendants’ guilty pleas and documents filed in court, sometime between October 6, 2013, and March 27, 2014, A. EDGE and D. EDGE used a six-year-old minor for the purpose of making a sexually explicit video of the minor’s genitals and pubic area.

According to the defendants’ guilty pleas, A. EDGE made child pornography videos of two young girls in the bathroom of his home using pin-hole cameras disguised to look like household objects, one in the shape of a plastic coat hook and one in the shape of an ink pen. D. EDGE participated in making a child pornography video of one of the young girls. Moreover, more than one thousand suspected images of child pornography were recovered from computers seized at the Edge residence, including many depictions of the sexual exploitation of pre-pubescent children and infants.

This case is the result of an investigation by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and the Austin Police Department.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.

If you know of any child who may have been a victim of exploitation, please call the National Center for Missing or Exploited Children (NCMEC) at 1-800-THE-LOST (1-800-843-5678) or visit NCMEC’s web site at www.missingkids.com.

Assistant U.S. Attorneys Katharine T. Buzicky and Carol M. Kayser prosecuted this case.

Defendant Information:

ANTHONY DOANE EDGE, 36

Austin, Minn.

Convicted:

• Production of child pornography, 1 count

Sentenced:

• 25 years in federal prison

DEBORAH SUSAN EDGE, 37

Austin, Minn.

Convicted:

• Production of child pornography, 1 count

Sentenced:

• 10 years in federal prison

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United States Attorney’s Office, District of Minnesota: (612) 664-5600