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Thursday, November 14, 2024
For Immediate Release
U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of Mississippi
Gulfport, Miss. – A Saucier, Mississippi man pled guilty today to production of child pornography.
According to court documents, Tyler Selby, 30, was identified when United Kingdom authorities recovered a video that came from a social media user in the United States. Federal authorities in the United States identified Selby as the person who transmitted the video of an adult male and a minor child engaging in sexually explicit conduct. Chat logs related to the video evidenced that Selby knew the video would be transported and transmitted in interstate and foreign commerce via the internet with the use of a live streaming platform.
Selby pled guilty to the use of a minor in his legal custody for the purpose of producing and transmitting a live visual depiction of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct.
Selby is scheduled to be sentenced on March 6, 2025, and faces a minimum of 15 years and a maximum of 30 years in prison. A federal district judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.
U.S. Attorney Todd W. Gee and Acting Special Agent in Charge Eric DeLaune of Homeland Security Investigations made the announcement.
The case was investigated by Homeland Security Investigations with assistance from the United Kingdom West Yorkshire Police.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrea Jones is prosecuting the case.
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 U.S. 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.
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