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.