Jeffrey Farneski, a 50-year-old repeat sex offender, has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to enticing a child to produce child pornography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Details:<\/strong> U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Buchanan labeled Farneski a “serial predator” who took advantage of social media to lure a teenager into a web of sexual exploitation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In January 2022, special agents from Homeland Security Investigations conducted a search of Farneski\u2019s Lawrenceville residence after discovering he was distributing child pornography online. At the time, he was a registered sex offender on a 10-year probation term. During the search, agents found explicit material on his cell phone and confirmed that he had violated the terms of his probation by distributing illegal content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By The Numbers:<\/strong> After pleading guilty to additional child exploitation crimes, Farneski had his probation revoked and was returned to state prison. While incarcerated, agents reviewed text messages revealing that he had cultivated a sexual relationship with a Coweta County high school student. This teenager was under 18 when their communications began in a social media chat group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Farneski persuaded the student to send sexually explicit images and arranged in-person meetings to engage in sexual acts. After his return to state prison, Farneski continued to use contraband cell phones to maintain contact with her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Farneski was convicted of enticement of a minor and handed the 15-year sentence by Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy C. Batten, Sr. This conviction includes a lifetime of supervised release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jeffrey Farneski, a 50-year-old repeat sex offender, has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to enticing a child to produce child pornography. The Details: U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Buchanan labeled Farneski a “serial predator” who took advantage of social media to lure a teenager into a web of sexual exploitation. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[16346,11539,16345],"class_list":["post-208399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-jeffrey-farneski","tag-ryan-k-buchanan","tag-sex-offender","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}