East St. Louis man sentenced for federal child pornography conviction
An East St. Louis man was sentenced to 18 years for receiving child pornography from a 15-year-old girl he met on the internet.
Parris Guyton, 48, was sentenced on the federal charge in the U.S. Court in the Eastern District of Missouri.
According to a U.S. Department of Justice release, Guyton was identified by the teenage girl at the St. Louis Police Department. The girl said told police she Guyton in social media and had sexual intercourse with Guyton over a period of three months in late 2018.
The St. Louis Child Exploitation Task Force was contacted to intervene in the alleged sexual assault and discovered videos of the girl in “various poses and engaged in sexual activity,” according to the Department of Justice.
The victim told police Guyton was attempting to have her prostituted, the release stated, and had convinced her to produce and send him the lurid videos of herself.
“Guyton started chatting with the victim through online social media application in September 2018,” the release stated. “From September 2018 to December 2018, Guyton had numerous instances of sexual contact with the minor victim., including instances that involved one or more adult persons and sexual contact involving force.”
Guyton has had previous convictions in St. Clair County on felony sex and drug charges. In March of 2015, he pleaded guilty for failing to register as a sex offender and completed a three-year of probation sentence.
The case was investigated by the FBI, St. Louis County Police Department and the St. Louis Child Exploitation Task Force.
