Under is an official assertion from the US Lawyer’s Workplace for the Center District of Florida:
Ocala, Florida – United States District Choose Thomas P. Barber has sentenced Jon Don Bannister, Jr. (31, Clermont) to twenty-eight years in federal jail for 2 counts of manufacturing of kid sexual abuse materials (CSAM). Bannister entered a responsible plea on July 21, 2025.
In response to court docket paperwork, on April 26 and Might 4, 2023, in Lake County, Bannister produced CSAM by filming himself participating in sexual exercise with a 14-year-old youngster. An investigation by regulation enforcement confirmed that Bannister had been supplying vape pens and medicines to minors. In return for this stuff, Bannister had requested the minors to offer him with nude pictures of themselves.
This case was investigated by Homeland Safety Investigations, the Florida Division of Regulation Enforcement, and the Mascotte Police Division. It was prosecuted by Assistant United States Lawyer Sarah Janette Swartzberg.
That is one other case introduced as a part of Mission Protected Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in Might 2006 by the Division of Justice to fight the rising epidemic of kid sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by the USA Attorneys’ Places of work and the Legal Division’s Little one Exploitation and Obscenity Part, Mission Protected Childhood marshals federal, state, and native sources to find, apprehend, and prosecute people who sexually exploit youngsters, and to establish and rescue victims. For extra details about Mission Protected Childhood, please go to www.justice.gov/psc.
