Crawford County man sentenced on child porn charges
A federal judge has sentenced a Crawford County man to 27 years in prison for taking explicit videos of children.
Michael Paul Murphy, 41, of Pittsburg, pleaded guilty in July to two counts of producing child pornography. He admitted to using an iPhone to secretly record footage of two children between March 2016 and July 2017.
“These recordings captured the minor victims in states of undress,” according to Murphy’s plea agreement. He edited the videos to focus on the children’s genitals then emailed the footage to his workplace, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said in a news release.
The videos were made in Pittsburg, the plea agreement says. One child was as young as 12 at the time and the other was 15.
This story was originally published September 27, 2019 at 12:17 PM.
