Indiana Man Indicted for Attempted Enticement of a Kentucky Minor

LOUISVILLE, KY—A federal grand jury in Louisville, returned an indictment against Devin Lee Brock, age 27, of Plainfield, Indiana, on charges of attempted enticement of a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity, announced David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky.

The Indictment was returned on May 2, 2011 and was unsealed today. It alleges that between November 11, 2010 and March 15, 2011, Brock, using the screen name “d.brock66,” used the Internet in an attempt to chat with and entice a minor living in Kentucky to meet him and engage in illegal sexual activity.

In the event of a conviction, the maximum potential penalties are life in prison, a $250,000 fine, and supervised release for a period of life; and the minimum potential penalties are 10 years’ in prison, and supervised release for a period of five years.

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 www.projectsafechildhood.gov.

The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney A. Spencer McKiness, and it was investigated by the FBI and Louisville Metro Police Department.