Army major in Georgia jailed on federal child porn charge An Army officer stationed in Georgia has been jailed on a federal charge of distributing child pornographyAn Army officer who held a top-secret security clearance shared nude photos of a teenage girl online and discussed plans to drug the girl and have sex with her, according to federal court records unsealed Monday. Army Maj. Jason Musgrove was arrested and charged with distributing child pornography after an FBI agent monitoring online groups devoted to child pornography and discussions of child sex traced the photos to a computer in Musgrove's home in Georgia, said documents filed in U.S. District Court. Maj. Kip Patterson, a Cyber Command spokesman, said the Army is cooperating with civilian authorities in their investigation. The agent began swapping online messages with the man, who identified himself as being “employed as an Officer for the Army,” the affidavit said. A federal magistrate judge ordered that Musgrove remain in custody of U.S. marshals, who jailed him in Lincoln County.

Source: ABC News December 09, 2019 21:06 UTC