A Clarkston man has been sentenced to 273 months in federal prison for producing child pornography.
27-year-old Justin Krasselt pleaded guilty to the charges in June.
According to court documents, Krasselt shared child pornography within a public chat group on the Kik messaging application in June 2020. An undercover Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent captured the child pornography posted and observed that one of the videos appeared to be produced by Krasselt. Days later law enforcement executed a federal search warrant at Krasselt’s Clarkston residence where agents seized electronic devices, including Krasselt’s phone.
When interviewed by law enforcement, Krasselt admitted to using Kik on his phone and to sending and receiving sexually exploitative images of minors. The investigation and forensic review of Krasselt’s phone, however, revealed that Krasselt had done more than send and receive child pornography. Investigators found ten sexually exploitative videos that Krasselt recorded of an 8-year old girl. During a separate investigation, images and videos of the child were discovered as far away as Australia.
In a separate, but related investigation, Krasselt pleaded guilty in Asotin County to three counts of child molestation in the first degree. On November 16, 2020, Krasselt was sentenced to 12 years in state prison in the Asotin County case.
