A 40-year-old Omaha man who sent sexually explicit pictures of a minor to an FBI agent was sentenced Tuesday to 27 years in federal prison for production of child pornography.
Percy Bush sent pictures of a child between 6 and 8 years old involved in explicit conduct to the agent, according to Susan Lehr, the U.S. Attorney for Nebraska. Bush was also ordered to pay $63,000 in restitution to his victims and serve a lifetime term of supervised release.
On Dec. 11, 2022, an FBI officer based in Washington, D.C., was acting in an undercover capacity as part of a child exploitation task force. The officer was investigating a fetish website where users were known to trade original images of underage children and links containing child pornography.
A user with the screen name, Jedipb01, eventually identified as Bush, initiated a private chat with the officer within the website and on KIK instant messenger. During the chat, Bush sent the undercover officer an image of sexually explicit conduct involving a minor victim who was 6 to 8 years old.
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Law enforcement determined that between March 2022 and December 2022, Bush used the minor victim to produce visual depictions of sexually explicit conduct. During the chat with the undercover officer, Bush also sent a Mega link containing videos depicting preteen girls and boys being sexually abused by adults.
A search was executed by the FBI at an Omaha residence for Bush. A forensic examination of Bush’s phone and several email accounts identified approximately 101 video files and 1,481 image files of child sexual abuse material. The age range of the children depicted in the materials was between 2 and 14 years old.
Bush was convicted previously of eight counts of possession of child pornography in 2016 in Douglas County District Court. He was sentenced to serve eight years in the state prison system and was released after four years.
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