FBI busts woman who provided a child for a pornographic photoshoot

On April 7, a woman pleaded guilty in a federal courtroom to receiving child sexual abuse material produced by a photographer she had hired. She also provided the child who appeared in those images

According to court documents, Hannah Kinchen, 40, of Gonzales, Louisiana, coordinated with a photographer who self-identified as a “pedophile,” to conduct photoshoots for the minor victim’s modeling career. During the photoshoots, Kinchen allowed and assisted the photographer in posing the minor victim wearing scanty attire, including thongs and G-strings.

The photographer sent and Kinchen received most of the images through a file-sharing website on the Internet. Some of the resulting images qualified as child pornography and some were later sold.

Kinchen pleaded guilty to one count of receipt of child pornography. She had originall pleaded not guilty when charged back in 2023. She is scheduled to be sentenced on July 15 and faces a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison and a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.

The FBI New Orleans Division – Baton Rouge Resident Agency investigated the case.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice.

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(Source: U.S. Attorney’s Office, Middle District of Louisiana)
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Posted by Richard Webster, Ace News Today
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