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SYRACUSE Woman Admits Using 10-year-old Girl to Produce Child Pornography

By John O'Brien
Syracuse.com
February 15, 2017

http://www.syracuse.com/crime/index.ssf/2017/02/syracuse_woman_admits_producing_child_porn_in_all_saints_case.html

A Syracuse woman admitted today that she used a 10-year-old girl to produce child pornography.

Kerry Smith, 41, pleaded guilty in federal court to sexual exploitation of a child. She was arrested last year on charges of producing the images then texting them to another child pornographer, Jason Kopp.

Kopp, 40, of Liverpool, was sentenced to 235 years in prison in September for sexually exploiting two children for the purpose of making child pornography.

Kopp pleaded guilty in May to taking sexually explicit photos of two children with help from an aide at All Saints Elementary School in Syracuse. Neither of those victims was a student at the school.

The aide, Emily Oberst, is accused of exploiting those two victims, plus a third who was a student at the school and photographed naked in a bathroom, sources have told Syracuse.com.

The charges against Oberst are pending.

After Kopp was arrested in March, he told investigators he'd received sexually explicit images of a child from a woman he knew only as "Kerry B," court papers said.

Investigators determined the woman was Smith by examining Kopp's phone. They confronted her and she admitted she'd produced the photos and texted them to Kopp, court papers said.

Smith was accused in April of sending multiple photos of a naked 10-year-old girl to Kopp, including pictures of her genitalia, according to a federal grand jury indictment.

Smith faces at least 15 years in prison and up to 30 years. U.S. District Judge Glenn Suddaby scheduled sentencing for June 13.

Contact: jobrien@syracuse.com

 

 

 

 

 




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