TALLAHASSEE, FL—Jonathan Harry Lee Williams of Tallahassee, Florida, was sentenced to 30 years in prison by United States District Judge Mark E. Walker for using a minor to produce child pornography and for possessing child pornography. The sentence was announced by Pamela C. Marsh, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.

Williams, formerly a registrar at Ruediger Elementary School, was arrested on December 11, 2014, after FBI agents executed a search warrant at his home. During the search, law enforcement officers seized Williams’s smart phones, which contained child pornography. Williams, who pled guilty in February 2015, admitted to taking sexually explicit photos of two children and uploading the images to a “photo hosting” website. Williams also admitted that he had been downloading nude photographs of children from the Internet for the past ten years.

The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Jason Beaton.

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