Missouri Man Imprisoned for Receiving Sexual Images of Cobb Teen

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A Missouri man will spend 12 years in federal prison and the rest of his life on supervised release after pleading guilty to receiving child pornography of a 16-year-old Cobb County girl, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday.

Curt Bowman, 43, posed as a woman named “Amanda Toben” on the internet and made contact with the teen, identified only as ”Jane Doe,” through a chat room in January of 2014, Missouri news outlet KOAM reports. Doe thought Toben was a resident of Missouri, and the two soon began exchanging sexually explicit e-mails. Eventually, Toben asked Doe to send sexually explicit images of herself, and Doe did so.

After Doe’s mother went to Cobb County police, investigators discovered Bowman’s true identity and passed the information along to Missouri authorities, who arrested Bowman and executed a search warrant on his Nevada, MO home. According to KOAM,.

Although the age of consent in Georgia is 16, the federal age of consent is 18 and therefore receiving images of a 16-year-old over the internet is a federal child pornography offense.

Bowman pleaded guilty to a charge of receiving child pornography on Oct. 15, 2014, KOAM said.