Former Hamilton County deputy gets 25 years for exploiting children online

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A former Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office corrections deputy will spend 25 years in federal prison for posing as a child online and manipulating children across the country into making sexually explicit videos.

Federal investigators say 27-year-old Johnathan Nathaniel Allen of Chattanooga exploited eight children in five states, some as young as sixth grade.

And he did it while working as a sheriff’s deputy…

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