U.S. Attorney Ariana Fajardo Orshan for the Southern District of Florida, Special Agent in Charge George L. Piro of the FBI’s Miami Field Office, and Sheriff William D. Snyder of the Martin County Sheriff’s Office announced that Torrie Chermaine Austin, 35, of Stuart, Florida, was sentenced today to 360 months in prison and a lifetime of supervised release by U.S. District Judge Robin L. Rosenberg in Ft Pierce, Florida after previously pleading guilty to producing visual depictions of the sexual exploitation of a minor.
According the court documents, between April and Nov. 2018, Austin produced video recordings of his sexual exploitation and abuse of an 11 year old child.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood (PSC), a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals, who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims. For more information about the Project Safe Childhood initiative and for information regarding Internet safety, please visit www.justice.gov/psc.
U.S. Attorney Fajardo Orshan commended the investigative efforts of the FBI and Martin County Sheriff’s Office in this matter. The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Carmen M. Lineberger.
