A Fort Gordon officer Monday was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for producing child pornography.
Jason Michael Musgrove, 41, of Grovetown was sentenced after pleading guilty to the child pornography charge, said Bobby L. Christine, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Georgia. Musgrove, who served in the Army Cyber Command, will also pay restitution of $9,000 to the victim and register as a sex offender.
“While the timing is entirely coincidental, it nonetheless bears noting that Musgrove’s sentence comes just days after two FBI agents in Florida were killed while attempting to search the home of a child pornographer,” said Christine. “The disturbing and despicable nature of such predators only increases their danger to the community, and Musgrove’s long sentence immediately makes the community safer.”
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Christine was one of the driving forces behind adding language to the 2010 Judicial Reform Act that took away the statute of limitations on child predation in Georgia, and he continues as US Attorney to prosecute those who prey upon the most vulnerable.
“Predation is wrong against any victim group,” Christine says, “but particularly reprehensible when perpetrated against children.”
Musgrove was arrested in December 2019. He was then serving as an integrated threat operations officer with Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmentalized Information clearance at the Army Cyber Joint Headquarters at Fort Gordon. Musgrove currently is facing administrative separation from the Army.
“It is beyond comprehension that someone in a position sworn to protect American citizens would take advantage and traumatize vulnerable children,” said Chris Hacker, special agent in charge of FBI Atlanta. “The FBI is committed to protecting our children by identifying and apprehending predators who commit such abhorrent crimes.”
The investigation was conducted by the FBI and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney and Project Safe Childhood Coordinator Tara M. Lyons. Judge J. Randal Hall presided over the sentencing.
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