Dallas Man Sentenced to More Than 17 Years in Federal Prison for Producing Child Pornography

DALLAS—Bryan Munson Ewing, 38, of Dallas, was sentenced this morning by Chief U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater to 210 months (17.5 years) in federal prison to be followed by a 20-year term of supervised release, announced U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of the Northern District of Texas. Ewing pleaded guilty in April to one count of production of child pornography and has been in custody since his arrest in January 2009.

According to documents filed when Ewing entered his guilty plea, he admitted that in July 2007, he brought a 14-year-old female child to his apartment where he, among other things, took sexually explicit photographs of her. Ewing also admitted that he used a remote control-type device connected to his camera to take photographs of himself and the 14-year-old female child engaged in sexual positions on his bed. Ewing admitted that he knew the girl was 14 years old.

Ewing’s state charge (Dallas County) of Sexual Assault of a Child remains pending.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to better locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit http://www.projectsafechildhood.gov/

The case was investigated by the FBI and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Lisa Miller.