By RAYMOND L. SMITH

Staff writer

YOUNGSTOWN — An Austintown man convicted on charges related to child pornography received a 21-year, 6-month prison sentence Monday during a hearing before U.S. District Court Judge James S. Gwuin.

Daniel R. Parker, 32, was found guilty by a jury on June 4 of receipt and distribution of visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, and sexual exploitation of children, according to court records.

Upon release from prison, Parker will be placed on supervised released for 10 years, under which he will have to submit to random DNA collection and register as a sex offender. He is to have no contact with the victim or other minors.

He is not to frequent or loiter within 100 feet of schools, parks, arcades and other places frequented by children.

Parker was indicted with Candis Wynn, 32, of Lucretia Drive, Girard, in connection to these charges.

Wynn pleaded guilty to sexual exploitation of children, receipt and distribution of visual depiction of real minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct and possession of child pornography prior to Parker’s trial, according to court records. She was sentenced to 25 years in prison by U.S. District Court by Judge James S. Gwin on Sept. 6. Upon release, she faces 20 years of supervised release.

Investigations conducted by the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation and the FBI found that Wynn used her cellphone to create child pornography and distribute it.

The Trumbull County Sheriff’s office was contacted by an investigator of the Crimes Against Children Task Force in Cuyahoga County on Jan. 7 about it receiving a tip from Google about child pornography material being disseminated in the area. An investigation found files containing four digital images and three videos from a Google account belonging to Wynn.

The images depicted the sexual assault of a prepubescent female, and a 44-second color video showed an adult male having sexual contact with the minor, according to a criminal complaint.

Investigators were able to determine the images were taken on Dec. 12, 2018, and were recorded on a cell- phone.

On the phone, BCI found the child-pornography images identified by the task force. There were also text messages sent to Parker that contained the sexually explicit images and videos identified by the task force, according to the complaint.

A forensic review of the phone revealed that Parker sent Wynn other child pornography videos of unknown origins. The two discussed the images and videos through texts, describing them in detail, the complaint states.

Wynn also was sentenced to one year of probation in August after pleading guilty in Girard Municipal Court to a charge of endangering children after leaving her 2-year-old daughter home alone while she went out to buy alcohol, according to court records.

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