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A Former Sheriff’s Deputy Posed Online as a 14-Year-Old Boy. He Got 25 Years.

A Tennessee man who once carried a badge was sentenced to twenty-five years in federal prison for producing child sexual abuse material. Johnathan Nathaniel Allen, 27, of Chattanooga, had worked as a sheriff’s deputy. U.S. District Judge Sherri A. Lydon handed down the sentence. His method was the oldest one on the internet and still…

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