Jason Miller Speed of St. Paul, Minn., has been sentenced to 292 months in prison followed by 15 years of supervised release for solicitation and production of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), announced Acting U.S. Attorney Lisa Kirkpatrick.
Court documents state that from January 2020 through February 2024, Speed, 42, solicited the production of child pornography over the internet. Speed developed an online relationship with an adult woman located in the Philippines who produced CSAM content featuring minor victims under the age of 12 for financial incentives from Speed. Speed was aware that the victims were minors.
Ultimately, local authorities were able to rescue the minor victims through cooperation with the FBI’s International Operations division.
“Child predators are conniving, creative, and profoundly dangerous. Speed lived in our community and lurked in the dark corners of the internet. From his perch in St. Paul, Speed victimized little children halfway around the world,” said Kirkpatrick. “While I am appalled at Speed’s predation, I am extraordinarily proud of the above-and-beyond efforts of law enforcement in this case. Because of the heroic efforts of the FBI and AUSA Will Mattessich, the young victims in the Philippines were rescued from a life of sexual torture.”
Speed pleaded guilty to one count of aiding and abetting the production of child pornography. He was sentenced in U.S. District Court by Judge Jeffrey M. Bryan. In handing down the sentence, Judge Bryan noted, “What happened to the two minor children is appalling and it is horrific.”
Federal inmates must serve a minimum of 85% of their sentence incarcerated before becoming eligible for release.
The case was the result of an investigation conducted by the FBI, Maplewood Police Department, St. Paul Police Department, and the Carver County Sheriff’s Office. It 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, 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.
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