Posted on: May 06, 2026 12:30 PM

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Dutchess county man sentenced to 78 months in prison for receipt and distribution of child pornography

The Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, announced today that JORDAN WATSON was sentenced to 78 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Nelson S. Román for receipt and distribution of child pornography.  WATSON previously pled guilty to two counts of receiving and distributing child sex abuse material.

“Jordan Watson crossed a clear legal and moral line by pressuring children to produce sexually explicit images,” said U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton.  “This kind of conduct deepens the harm to victims and spreads far beyond a single interaction.  It affects families and communities here in New York, and we will hold accountable those who engage in this reprehensible conduct.”

According to the Information, plea agreement, other public court filings, and statements made in court:

In July and August 2021, WATSON—who was 23 years old at the time, but pretended to be 16 years old—while in Wappingers Falls, New York, communicated with a 12-year-old girl in Arizona (“Victim-1”) and a 12-year-old girl in Indiana (“Victim-2”) online, and persuaded each to engage in sexually explicit conduct, to produce a visual depiction of such conduct, and to transmit one or more images or videos depicting that conduct to him over the Internet.

For example, over Snapchat, WATSON engaged in sexually explicit conversations with Victim-1. On July 18, 2021, WATSON described in graphic detail how he wanted to have sex with Victim-1 and asked Victim-1’s age.  Victim-1 initially told WATSON that she was “14” years old, although she was 12 years old at the time.  Later that same day, WATSON messaged Victim-1 “Send the pics”; “Send me stuff if you’re horny . . .”

On July 26, 2021, WATSON engaged in further conversations with Victim-1, the context surrounding which indicated that suggested that he was requesting or had requested sexually explicit material. Among other things, WATSON directed Victim-1 to “[p]ut them on infinity,” which is a reference to a setting on Snapchat that makes a video play on loop, so the video keeps repeating without stopping until the recipient closes it.  The same day, Vicitm-1 messaged Snapchat Account-1 “I’m almost 13,” reflecting her true age of 12.

On August 1, 2021, Victim-1 sent WATSON a sexually explicit video of herself masturbating.

WATSON also engaged in sexually explicit conversations with Victim-2 over Snapchat.  For example, on August 3, 2021, WATSON asked Victim-2 “how old are you”; Victim-2 responded that she was “13,” although she was in fact 12 years old.  WATSON then messaged Victim-2 “[l]ater TN you should show me something and I wanna fuck you it’ll be nice to see your titties bounce.” Several hours later, on August 4, 2021, WATSON sent Victim-2 numerous messages asking her to send sexually explicit images or videos of herself to him.  WATSON messaged Victim-2 “What would you send me”; “You can go to the bathroom and do some stuff please I’ll fuck you whenever you want”; “No pussy that’s what my dicks gonna be in and send videos playing with them”; “If you do it in the red you gotta send another pic of just your pussy.”  WATSON then directed Victim-2 to send “[t]its and face in bathroom and a video fingering yourself.”  When Victim-2 expressed concern that, if she sent WATSON sexually explicit videos, he would post them online, WATSON responded, “Please a quick pussy playing video no one will know.”

On August 5, 2021, WATSON messaged Victim-2, among other things, “Finger yourself for me”; “Show me and send like 20 videos put them on infinity so I can jerk off to them”; “And spit on the brush and suck on the brush and show your face cuz I wanna think that I’m fucking you.” Victim-2 responded “my wifi is slow but some are sending”; “6 videos.”  WATSON responded, “Send more please I’m horny asf for you.”

Shortly thereafter, on August 5, 2021, Victim-2 sent two videos to WATSON: a sexually explicit video of herself masturbating with a hairbrush, and video in which her face is visible, in which Victim-2 puts the same hairbrush in her mouth.

In addition to the prison term, WATSON, 27, of Wappingers Falls, New York, was sentenced to five years of supervised release.      

Mr. Clayton praised the efforts of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Hudson Valley Safe Streets Task Force, the Dutchess County Sheriff’s Office, and the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office.                               

From DOJ