A St. Paul man has been sentenced to 24 years in federal prison for paying a woman in the Philippines to produce child sexual abuse material for him over the course of four years.
Jason Miller Speed (Courtesy of the Sherburne County Sheriff’s Office)
Jason Miller Speed, 42, carried out an online relationship with the woman, who in exchange for money from him produced child sexual abuse material of two girls from January 2020 through February 2024, court documents filed in U.S. District Court of Minnesota say.
Speed was aware the victims were minors, according to prosecutors.
Authorities in the Philippines, through cooperation with the FBI’s International Operations division, were able to rescue the two victims.
Speed pleaded guilty in October to one count of aiding and abetting production of child pornography. His sentence, handed down Monday by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Bryan in St. Paul, includes 15 years of supervised release following incarceration.
“Child predators are conniving, creative and profoundly dangerous,” Acting U.S. Attorney Lisa Kirkpatrick said in a Wednesday statement. “Speed lived in our community and lurked in the dark corners of the internet. From his perch in St. Paul, Speed victimized little children halfway around the world.”
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