A former federal probation officer who pleaded guilty will serve a decade in prison for receiving video and photos of child sexual exploitation, U.S. Attorney Clay Joyner announced Monday.
Lonnie Everill, 46, of Water Valley, whose work focused on supervising and rehabilitating sexual offenders, was sentenced in federal court, months after receiving over 1,400 images sent and received over a four-month period.
An FBI investigation began after Everill sent chats with an undercover agent about arranging to travel to California and have sex with a child Everill believed was the agent’s niece, according to court records.
They began to exchange chats after Everill joined a public group on the platform KIK that the agent was in – a group with about 100 members who were exchanging child sexual abuse material and talking about children.
Investigators found images and videos of young children and toddlers not being sexually abused on Everill’s accounts. The material also included selfies of Everhill and pictures of local minors not engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
Joyner and Robert Eikhoff, special agent in charge of the FBI Jackson Field Office, called the crime a betrayal of trust for the victims, community and credibility of federal probation officers in the district.
Everill had worked in several states including Mississippi, according to Joyner’s office.
“No matter their badge or title, the FBI will always aggressively pursue those that prey on our children,” Eikhoff said in a statement.
U.S. District Judge Dan Jordan sentenced Everill to 10 years in the Bureau of Prisons followed by 10 years of supervised release. Everill will be required to register as a sex offender, and the judge also ordered requirements meant to restrict Everill’s access to children and the internet.
The judge also ordered him to pay $3,000 in restitution to the victims in the images he had, and an additional $10,000 assessment.
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