Clay County Man Sentenced to 196 Months for Distribution and Possession of Child Pornography
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LONDON, KY. - A Manchester man, Richard Scott Smith, 45, was sentenced on Tuesday to 196 months in federal prison, by U.S. District Judge Claria Horn Boom, for one count of distribution and one count of possession of child pornography. Smith was further ordered to pay $31,000 in restitution to his victims.
In his plea agreement, Smith admitted to distributing sexually explicit images of an 8-year-old female via the Skout application. Skout is a social networking application. Judge Boom held that Smith’s conduct involved children as young as 3-years-old and involved more 1,200 images under the United States’ Sentencing Guidelines. Smith has two prior convictions for assault, and a federal conviction for transporting undocumented aliens within the United States.
Jonathan Manigault
A South Carolina man charged in connection with a Pike County child pornography case was sentenced to 40 years in prison this week.
According to a statement from the U.S. Attorneyâs Office for the Eastern District of Kentucky, on Jan. 25, U.S. District Judge Karen Caldwell sentenced Jonathan Manigault, 36, of
Myrtle Beach, to 480 months in prison on charges of production of child pornography and knowingly receiving child pornography.
Manigaultâs co-defendant, Christina Brook Mitchell, 31, of King Camp Branch, Phelps, was sentenced in February to serve 35 years in the case.
According to the statement from the U.S. Attorneyâs Office, Manigault, who pleaded guilty in the case, admitted that he directed Mitchell to take photographs of a three-year-old victim engaging in sexually explicit conduct. Manigault, the statement said, provided Mitchell with specific, detailed instructions on what types of explicit photographs to produce and provide to him.