Man pleads guilty to producing child porn depicting Philippine victims

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Dwayne Stinson of Manassas, Virginia admits to producing pornographic material.

A VIRGINIA MAN  pleaded guilty today to using the Internet to pay women to sexually abuse children as young as six years old in the Philippines while he produced numerous images of the abuse.

According to court documents, from at least October 2011 until February 2012, Dwayne Stinson, 53, used an electronic payment service to pay women in the Philippines he was chatting with to sexually abuse children while he directed the abuse. He admitted that some of the children were as young as six or seven years old. At the same time, Stinson  produced numerous screenshot images of the abuse and stored them on his computer.

Stinson, a resident of Manassas, Virginia, pleaded guilty to one count of production of child pornography before U.S. District Judge Liam O’Grady. His sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 24, 2018.

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 CEOS, 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.

Stinson's name was uncovered in a 2010 investigation of similar operations operating in  Dallas. In 2012, Virginia law enforcement searched Stinson's home and found pornographic material on his computer hard drives.

Stinson was not arrested until July 2017. When a television reporter asked about the almost five-year period in between the search of Stinson’s home and his arrest, Joshua Stueve, a spokesman with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of Virginia, told WTOP that he could not publicly share any details on the timeline leading to Stinson’s arrest.

After accepting a plea deal with prosecutors for producing child pornography, Stinson faces 15 years in prison when he is sentenced in August. 

For more information about Project Safe Childhood, visit www.justice.gov/psc.
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