Man sentenced to prison after friend turns him in for child pornography
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IDAHO FALLS — A 46-year-old man was sentenced to federal prison Wednesday after his friend found child pornography in his home and reported it to the police.
Jonathan Douglas Mohr of Ammon, was sentenced to 17.5 years in federal prison for distributing child pornography. Mohr was also ordered to pay $141,500 in restitution to the victims in the images of child sexual abuse material that he distributed and possessed, serve 10 years of supervised release, and be required to register as a sex offender.
Mohr was indicted by a grand jury on Dec. 13. According to the indictment, Mohr was initially charged with four felony counts of distribution of child pornography and one felony count of possession of child pornography.
He later accepted a plea agreement, where he pleaded guilty to one count of distribution of child pornography, in exchange for the remaining charges being dropped.
Background
Court documents say around July 16, 2023, a man reported seeing child sexual abuse images at his friend’s house. The man told Bonneville County Sheriff’s deputies that on July 3, he was at Mohr’s home when he asked Mohr if he could use his tablet.
Mohr said yes and went to take a shower. When the friend opened the tablet, he saw a video of an adult man raping an infant.
The friend says he closed the video and saw at least 10 more in a folder, also showing sexual abuse of a child. According to the man, the tablet was connected to a media server.
Mohr returned to the room and realized his friend had seen the videos. He reportedly told the friend, “You’ll get me in trouble,” and took the tablet back as the friend left the home.
On Oct. 23, around 8:40 a.m., the Idaho Crimes Against Children task force, assisted by the Bonneville County Sheriff’s Office and Idaho Falls Police Department, executed a search warrant at Mohr’s home.
Mohr was detained and transported to the Bonneville County Sheriff’s Ammon Field Office for an interview. He declined to speak to investigators and asked for an attorney.
During the search of the home, deputies found the tablet in the bedroom, which contained more than 1,000 images and videos of child pornography of children as young as infants being raped and abused by adults.
Also on the tablet were photos and videos of bestiality involving children, deputies said.