A jury in Middle Tennessee has convicted an FBI electronics technician of multiple child exploitation charges.
According to a press release issued Wednesday by the Department of Justice, evidence presented at trial shows that between June 2020 and April 27, 2021, Justin Carroll engaged in sexually explicit chats and exchanged sexually explicit images with three fourteen-year-old females over various social media platforms after connecting with the minors on chatting websites. Carroll’s conduct was discovered after one of the victims mailed a Valentine’s Day package to the FBI office. Sexually explicit images of the minor females were found in Carroll’s social media accounts and on his cell phone. Images of Carroll were found in one of the minor’s social media accounts and on another minor’s cell phone. Carroll continued communicating with the fourteen-year-old victim who mailed the package, even after receiving an e-mail from her mother inquiring why her daughter mailed him a package and advising him of her daughter’s age.
Carroll will be sentenced on August 9, 2024. He faces a mandatory minimum prison sentence of five years and a maximum sentence of life.