A woman from Barboursville, Kentucky, Raven Broughton-Jones, 31, has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for producing child pornography. U.S. District Judge Robert Wier issued the sentence following Broughton-Jones’s guilty plea.
Court documents state that on January 5, 2024, Broughton-Jones used a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct and participated in creating visual recordings of the act.
Federal sentencing rules require Broughton-Jones to serve at least 85 percent of her prison term. After completing her sentence, she will be supervised by the U.S. Probation Office for ten years.
Paul McCaffrey, First Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky; Colin Jackson, Acting Special Agent in Charge at Homeland Security Investigations (HSI); and Chief Greg Lucas of the Barboursville Police Department jointly announced the conviction.
The case was investigated by HSI and the Barboursville Police Department. Assistant U.S. Attorney Justin Blankenship prosecuted on behalf of the government.
The prosecution is part of Project Safe Childhood, an initiative launched by the Department of Justice in 2006 aimed at combating child sexual exploitation and abuse nationwide. The project brings together resources from various levels of law enforcement to find and prosecute offenders who exploit children online and rescue victims. More details about Project Safe Childhood can be found at www.projectsafechildhood.gov.
