{"id":266661,"date":"2019-02-01T20:05:54","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T03:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/youtube-star-austin-jones-pleads-guilty-to-child-pornography-charge\/"},"modified":"2019-02-01T20:05:54","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T03:05:54","slug":"youtube-star-austin-jones-pleads-guilty-to-child-pornography-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/youtube-star-austin-jones-pleads-guilty-to-child-pornography-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Star Austin Jones Pleads Guilty to Child Pornography Charge"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UPDATE<\/strong>: YouTube star\u00a0Austin Jones<\/strong> pleaded guilty to a federal child pornography charge on Friday. According to court documents obtained by E! News, the 26-year-old faces a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison and a maximum sentence of 20 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

His sentencing is scheduled for May 3, 2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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A federal judge has ordered YouTube star Austin Jones released on bail, days after he was arrested on\u00a0child pornography charges<\/a>, and has barred him from using the Internet and social media while he awaits trial.<\/p>\n

The judge announced the decision Thursday at a hearing. Jones, 24, was ordered released from custody on a $100,000 bond and must remain on home confinement during his online ban,\u00a0prosecutors told E! News. The YouTube star posted bail and is set to be released later in the evening.<\/p>\n

Jones\u00a0looked stone-faced and wore\u00a0orange jail garb in court, where he sat with his mother, The Chicago Sun-Times<\/a><\/em>\u00a0reported, adding that his\u00a0attorney declined comment.<\/p>\n

The singer, whose acapella music covers have garnered him a\u00a0following of more than 500,000 subscribers, was arrested Monday after being stopped by\u00a0Customs and Border Patrol and Homeland Security Investigations at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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He was charged with\u00a0two counts of production of child pornography. According to a federal criminal complaint, he is accused of coaxing two 14-year-old girls to send him several sexually explicit videos of them dancing\u00a0while exposing\u00a0their genitals. It says both teens stated their age to Jones.<\/p>\n

While in custody, Jones had given authorities a recorded interview admitting\u00a0that he had “admitted to having used his Facebook account to have sexually explicit chats with minor females; admitted to requesting and receiving videos from those females, including [both girls], depicting [the girls]\u00a0displaying their genitals; and admitted viewing those videos for the purpose of sexual pleasure,” the complaint states.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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If convicted of both counts of producing child pornography, Jones\u00a0faces a minimum of 30\u00a0years in prison.<\/p>\n

(This story was originally published Thursday, June 15, 2017 at 2:05 p.m. PST)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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UPDATE: YouTube star\u00a0Austin Jones pleaded guilty to a federal child pornography charge on Friday. According to court documents obtained by E! News, the 26-year-old faces a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison and a maximum sentence of 20 years.\u00a0 His sentencing is scheduled for May 3, 2019.\u00a0 ______ A federal judge has ordered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-266661","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 18:27:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}