ICE and SLCPD investigation results in a Missouri Pedophile, Raven Ainesis Pointer, getting a 25-year prison sentence being convicted of manufacturing child exploitation material involving a toddler.
ST. LOUIS — On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Rodney W. Sippel sentenced a Pedophile woman from St. Louis County, Missouri, to 25 years in prison for making child sexual abuse material involving a two-year-old, as a result of an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the St. Louis County Police Department. [EDITORS NOTE – IN THE UK THIS WOULD BE MAXIMUM OF 10 YEARS IN PRISON]
Judge Sippel additionally mandated that the Pedophile, Raven Ainesis Pointer, 27, remit $15,000 in restitution. Upon her release from incarceration, Pointer will be subject to lifelong supervised release.
Raven Ainesis Pointer entered a guilty plea in October in U.S. District Court in St. Louis for one count of child pornography production. Pointer confessed to coercing the victim in 2022 into participating in sexual acts and utilising her phone to create recordings containing child sexual abuse material.
Raven Ainesis Pointer documented the sexual abuse of the infant on six instances and disseminated it to others for their “perverse sexual” amusement, according to a sentencing memorandum submitted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Tiffany Becker. While incarcerated, Raven Ainesis Pointer persisted in attempting to reach the child and reproached the child’s father for pursuing restitution, according to the memorandum.
“The production and sharing of child sexual abuse material is an appalling betrayal of human decency. This defendant targeted an innocent toddler – someone who should have been protected, not exploited – and did so for her own twisted purposes and the gratification of others who feed on this sickness.
Crimes like this are not only horrific, but they are also unforgivable,” said ICE Homeland Security Investigations Kansas City Special Agent in Charge Mark Zito.
“We will use every tool we have to find predators like this, to stop them, and make sure they spend as many years as possible behind bars. There is zero tolerance for those who harm children.”
The investigation began in August of 2023 in Montgomery, Alabama, where ICE HSI special agents learned that a man who had been distributing child sexual abuse material had received videos involving a two-year-old victim from Raven Ainesis Pointer.
Investigators then tracked down Pointer in St. Louis. This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice.
Led by U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and the Department of Justice Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims.
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