St. Charles County Truck Driver Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison for Child Pornography, Enticement

ST. LOUIS - U.S. District Judge John A. Ross on Wednesday sentenced a man engaged in online sexual activity with three teens across the country to 15 years in prison, followed by a lifetime on supervised release.

Tristin M. Davis, 27, had been communicating with hundreds of people online, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jillian Anderson said in court Wednesday, many of whom appeared to be minors. Three victims have been identified fully by law enforcement. Davis used the screen name "muffinman130020" with the first two victims and "bacontaxi" with the third. They ranged in age from 14 to 16.

Davis initially lied about his age to fool victims in to thinking he was a peer, only later admitting his real age. Davis induced or persuaded victims into engaging in sexually explicit conduct with him online and received child sexual abuse material from all three. Davis engaged in "demeaning, derogatory and subjugating communications" with his victims, Anderson said, including discussions of rape, bondage and violence.

Davis pleaded guilty in April in U.S. District Court in three counts of coercion and enticement of a minor and three counts of receipt of child pornography.

The St. Charles County Police Department investigated the case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jillian Anderson prosecuted the case.

This case 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 and the Department of Justice Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, 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. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.justice.gov/psc.