On June 16, Robert Lee Johnson III, 39, formally agreed to plead guilty to two counts of producing child sexual abuse material (CSAM), and in exchange federal prosecutors agreed to drop the other four CSAM production charges he was facing.
The plea agreement doesn’t set a specific sentence, but it reduces Johnson’s statutory maximum. Instead of facing a maximum sentence of 180 years in prison, he now faces a maximum sentence of 60 years in prison. Johnson could still be placed on supervised release for the rest of his life.
The indictment states that on six occasions, Johnson “did knowingly and intentionally employ, use, persuade, induce, or coerce a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing a visual depiction of such conduct, and this depiction was produced using materials that had been shipped and transported in interstate and foreign commerce.”…