Memphis, TN – Carl Goodson Ragsdale, 58, of Bruceton, Tennessee, has been sentenced to 12 years for distribution, possession, and receipt of child pornography.
Kevin G. Ritz, United States Attorney, announced the sentence today.
According to information presented in court, in October 2018, Tumblr, Inc., a social networking website, reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) a cyber tip about apparent child pornography activity on a blog called “sweetbabygirlsdaddy.”
Tumblr provided an email address and IP address for the account and disabled the account. The IP address geolocated to Bruceton, Tennessee.
To assist with the investigation, NCMEC forwarded the tip to local law enforcement. The Martin Police Department Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Violent Crimes Against Children Task Force. Investigators identified Carl Goodson Ragsdale, of Bruceton, Tennessee, as the owner and user of the account.
FBI special agents interviewed Ragsdale, who admitted that he used the Tumblr account “sweetbabygirlsdaddy” to receive and post images, including sexually explicit images of prepubescent girls.
He admitted that he also used a cloud storage site to receive sexually explicit images of prepubescent children. He told agents that he “constantly” accessed child pornography on the internet and that he thought about sexual intercourse with women and children “all the time.”
Agents reviewed Ragsdale’s cell phone and tablet computer and found over 600 images of child sex abuse and graphic sexually explicit conversations about the children in some of those images of child sex abuse.
United States Attorney Kevin Ritz said: “Thanks to proactive and significant cooperation between our office and local and federal law enforcement partners, this defendant was brought to justice for his abhorrent crimes.”
