Registered Sex Offender Sentenced to 540 Months for Child Pornography Offenses

DALLAS — Jason Lee Randall, 33, of Mesquite, Texas, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay to 540 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in January 2017 to multiple child pornography offenses, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.

Randall pleaded guilty to production of child pornography, transportation of child pornography, possession of prepubescent child pornography and penalties for registered sex offenders.  Randall has been in custody since the time of his arrest in September 2016.

According to the indictment, factual resume, and information from his sentencing hearing, Randall, a registered sex offender previously convicted of several possession-of-child-pornography charges, used an online alias of “Emily Randall” to communicate with other children on the internet.  Randall, using various online accounts, pretended to be a 12-year-old girl and convinced other girls he met online to engage in sexually explicit conduct and create child pornography of themselves.  Randall would then send this child pornography to other children to convince them to engage in sexually explicit conduct and create more child pornography.  On at least one occasion, Randall video-chatted with a child and engaged in a sex act visible to the child.  Randall victimized at least twenty girls around the world, the majority of which were between the ages of 9 and 13 years old.  Randall also possessed thousands of images and videos of prepubescent child pornography, including videos involving infants being sexually abused.    

The case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.  Led by U.S. Attorney’s Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood leverages federal, state and local resources to better investigate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who sexually exploit children.  Project Safe Childhood also prioritizes identifying and rescuing victims.  For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit http://www.justice.gov/psc/.  For more information about internet safety education, please visit http://www.justice.gov/psc/ and click on the tab “resources.”

The investigation was conducted by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations, the Mesquite Police Department in Texas, and the Burrillville Police Department in Rhode Island.  Assistant U.S. Attorney Jamie L. Hoxie was in charge of the prosecution.

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