{"id":15035,"date":"2019-05-04T12:41:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T12:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/former-youtube-star-sentenced-to-ten-years-in-prison-for-child-porn.html"},"modified":"2019-05-04T12:41:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-04T12:41:21","slug":"former-youtube-star-sentenced-to-ten-years-in-prison-for-child-porn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/former-youtube-star-sentenced-to-ten-years-in-prison-for-child-porn.html","title":{"rendered":"Former YouTube star sentenced to ten years in prison for child porn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Youtube star Austin Jones <\/a> has been sentenced to ten years in a US federal prison after pleading guilty to persuading underage girls to send him explicit videos of themselves.<\/p>\n

Jones, who made a name for himself online singing covers of songs, was arrested and charged in 2017 with two counts of producing child pornography.<\/p>\n

He later pled guilty to one charge of receiving child pornography \u2014 admitting in a plea agreement that in 2016 and 2017 he enticed six girls to to produce and send explicit videos to \u201cprove\u201d they were his \u201cbiggest fan\u201d, per Buzzfeed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cProduction and receipt of child pornography are extraordinarily serious offenses that threaten the safety of our children and communities,\u201d it quotes assistant U.S. Attorney Katherine Neff Welsh writing in a sentencing memo. \u201cJones\u2019s actions took something from his victims and their families that they will never be able to get back.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the height of his YouTube <\/a> fame Jones had around 540,000 subscribers to his channel and more than 20M video views.<\/p>\n

In a 2015 apology vlog, after reports emerged of Jones asking young fans to send him twerking videos, he claimed it never went further than that. \u201cThere were never any nudes, never any physical contact, it never happened,\u201d he said then.<\/p>\n

But in his plea agreement Jones admitted to attempting to persuade more than thirty underage fans to send him explicit photos or videos.<\/p>\n

YouTube removed Jones\u2019 channel after he pled guilty in February \u2014 saying it had violated its community guidelines. But the Google <\/a>-owned company initially refused to shutter it, telling the BBC<\/a> a few days earlier that while it does have a policy of removing content when a person is convicted of a crime \u201cin some cases\u201d it does so only if the content is closely related to the crime committed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Describing her experience in a vlog<\/a> also posted to YouTube, one former fan she had received messages from Jones asking her for twerking videos prior to his 2015 apology video when she was 14-years-old.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just don\u2019t understand how these people can let the fame get to their heads that much that they think it\u2019s alright to do something to people like this,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s so messed up. But the fact that his fanbase was these vulnerable, insecure young girls makes it so much worse than it already is\u2026 He knew that that was his fanbase and he took advantage of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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