Registered Sex Offender Convicted Rapist Sentenced for Producing Video of Child Sex Abuse

WILMINGTON, N.C. - A federal judge sentenced Shawn Keith Green, 55, to 27 years in federal prison for Production of Child Pornography. Green pleaded guilty to the offense.

According to court documents and other information presented in court, a cloud storage service reported to the National Center of Missing and Exploited Children one of their users uploaded child sexual abuse material (child pornography) to an account. The North Carolina SBI linked the account to Inmate Green, a registered sex offender, living in Duplin County. The United States Secret Service executed a search warrant on Inmate Green's account, finding over 10,000 images and videos depicting the rape and abuse of children, some as young as newborn infants. Law enforcement executed a residential search warrant at Inmate Green's house. They seized digital devices that contained additional child sexual abuse material.

"We will never tolerate disgusting behavior like this. These spiders think they can lurk in the dark corners of the internet and hurt innocent children, but we will shine the light on them and stomp them out. We thank the SBI, United States Secret Service, and the Duplin County Sheriff for catching this pervert." said U.S. Attorney Ellis Boyle.

"The United States Secret Service (USSS), collaborating with United States Attorney's Office (Eastern District), NCSBI and Duplin County Sheriff's Office, successfully removed a significant threat from our community. This case highlights the importance of inter-agency cooperation in maintaining public safety," said USSS Special Agent in Charge Steven Gutierrez.

In February of 2022, Inmate Green used the internet to communicate with an unknown female, likely outside the United States. Inmate Green sent a live stream of him sexually abusing a child. Inmate Green encouraged the woman to sexually abuse a 10-year-old child and agreed to pay her if she did. Inmate Green recorded the video chat to preserve it, and uploaded the video to his cloud account. The woman and the child have not been identified.

In 2007, Inmate Green pleaded guilty to three counts of second-degree sexual offense and two counts of second-degree rape for the sexual assaults against three adult women. On three separate days in 2005 and 2006, he raped the women while threatening them with a knife. He bragged about raping these women in text messages found on his phone.

Ellis Boyle, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, made the announcement after sentencing by Chief U.S. District Judge Richard E. Myers II. The United States Secret Service, NC SBI and the Duplin County Sheriff's Office investigated the case, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Charity Wilson prosecuted the case.

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