Pitcairn woman to spend 22 years in prison for producing child porn

Rebecca Owens of Pitcairn will spend more than 22 years in federal prison for producing child porn images and sexually exploiting a minor.

U. S. District Judge Robert Colville on Wednesday imposed a term of 270 months on her, saying the case was “exceptionally troubling.”

He also ordered her to be on probation for 20 years.

Owens, 25, had pleaded guilty in 2020.

Over the course of two days in 2019, she communicated with a man in Monroe County, Pa., on social media and discussed the sexual abuse of a 3-year-old girl known to her.

Owens also chatted with another man in July 2019 and offered the girl to him to be sexually abused. In addition, she took sexually explicit images of the girl on her cellphone and sent them to him as part of their chat.

The investigation began in November 2019 when a state trooper investigating the Monroe County man examined his email accounts and found images of the child, according to the FBI.

Based on information from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the trooper knew his target had been communicating with someone in Pittsburgh.

Authorities Pittsburgh identified the person as Owens, recovered images from her social media account that showed her with children and sent those pictures to the trooper.

He identified one of the children as the same one seen in the porn images. A search of Owens’ house turned up items that were also seen in the images.

In an interview with Allegheny County police, Owens admitted that she sent the man images of the girl in May 2019 that she had taken with her phone.

The male suspect was prosecuted by state authorities in Monroe County.