A Wisconsin man who made pornographic photos of an underage girl and traveled to Knoxville in hopes of meeting a 12-year-old girl faces a 20-year federal prison sentence.
Eric M. Johnson, 29, of Janesville, Wis., was sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court in Knoxville by U.S. District Judge Pamela R. Reeves.
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Johnson, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Tennessee, pleaded guilty in April to using a minor to produce child porn and traveling interstate to have sex with a minor.
After trading emails about his interest in having sex with a 12-year-old girl with an undercover officer, he was arrested in October 2014 in Knoxville. He’d traveled from Wisconsin to East Tennessee, thinking he’d be able to meet up with the girl, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Authorities, using a search warrant, checked his cell phone. They found video recordings in which he’d molested an underage girl, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
The Knoxville Police Department Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and and U.S. Homeland Security Investigations worked the case.
