Greenfield Man Indicted on Federal Child Exploitation Offenses

Jackson, TN - A federal grand jury in Jackson recently returned an indictment charging a Greenfield, Tennessee man with multiple federal child sexual exploitation offenses. United States Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the return of the indictment today.

According to information presented in court, James Anthony Morris, 57, has been indicted with three counts of using and employing a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing a visual depiction of such conduct and attempting to commit those acts, distributing and attempting to receive visual depictions of minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct, attempting to entice and coerce a person who he believed to be a minor to engage in sexual activity for which any person could be charged with a crime, and possessing a cell phone that contained visual depictions of minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct.

This case is pending before United States District Court Judge J. Daniel Breen in Jackson. If convicted on all counts, Morris is facing a sentence of up to life in prison. There is no parole in the federal system.

This case is being investigated by members of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the investigative arm of the United States Immigration & Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE), the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI), the District Attorney's Office for the 27^th Judicial District, the Martin Police Department, and the Greenfield Police Department.

Anyone with additional information on this case is asked to contact TBI Special Agent Sarah Turner at [email protected] or 1-800-TBI-FIND.

The charges and allegations contained in the indictment are merely accusations of criminal conduct, not evidence. The defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt and convicted through due process of law.

Assistant United States Attorneys Josh Morrow and Caroline Parish are prosecuting this case on behalf of the government.

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