Austin Jones, a 26-year-old singer who had hundreds of thousands of subscribers on YouTube, is sent to prison for a decade after pleading guilty to child pornography charges.
A former YouTube star with a large teenage following has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for coercing six girls to send him sexually explicit videos.He requested sexually explicit videos from some of his underage fansProsecutors in Chicago's federal court had sought an 11-year prison sentence for Austin Jones, while the defence wanted the minimum of five years.Jones used Facebook and Apple's iMessage service to request sexually explicit videos from girls aged about 14 and 15.
Prosecutors alleged Jones sent numerous messages to two 14-year-old female fans in 2016 and 2017 in which he instructed them to expose their genitals in videos sent to him through Facebook.
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