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Florida couple plead guilty to production of child pornography

April 2, 2024

Press release from U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Florida

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Timothy Frederick Murphy-Johnson, 40, of Gainesville, and Olivia Ashford Henn, 21, of Orlando, entered guilty pleas to conspiracy to produce child pornography and two counts of production of child pornography. Murphy-Johnson also pleaded guilty to transporting the child from Texas to Florida for the purpose of sexual abuse. The pleas were announced by Jason R. Coody, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.

At the plea hearings, Murphy-Johnson admitted to causing a child to be transported from Corpus Christi, Texas, to Gainesville, Florida in early June 2023. Between June 11, 2023, and July 25, 2023, the child was maintained at Murphy-Johnson’s residence in Gainesville. The child was subjected to extreme sexual abuse, which was filmed by both Murphy-Johnson and Henn. During this time, Murphy-Johnson and Henn engaged in numerous conversations—in person, by cell phone, and through internet-based messaging—in which they discussed the child’s physical and mental condition, sexual acts involving the child, and their mutual concern regarding being arrested if discovered by law enforcement. On July 25, 2023, law enforcement officers investigating the reported disappearance of the child from Texas executed a search warrant at Murphy-Johnson’s residence in Alachua County. The child was rescued, and Murphy-Johnson and Henn were arrested.

Sentencing for both Murphy-Johnson and Henn is scheduled for June 25, 2024, at 11:30 a.m. at the United States Courthouse in Gainesville before United States District Judge Allen C. Winsor. Murphy-Johnson faces a sentence of 15 years to life imprisonment and five years to life on supervised release. Henn faces a sentence of 15 to 90 years imprisonment and five years to life on supervised release.

The case resulted from a joint investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office, the Texas Department of Public Safety, and the Department of Homeland Security Investigations. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney F.T. Williams.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice and led by the U.S. Attorney’s Offices and the Criminal Divisions Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), it marshals federal, state, and local resources to better locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.

  • Had to take a double take at that one…the one on the right.
    Uncanny resemblance to someone I’ve seen before.

  • Hopefully they will get maximum sentences for their sick crimes. Both should be sterilized so they can not produce future victims. I guess they could not satisfy each others desires but looking at both of them it is understandable.

  • A 21 year old female with a 40 year old dude kinda makes me think he’s a manipulative control freak with an extremely sick mind. Maybe there’s hope for her in the long run since she’s obviously been misled by that creep? But that sick dude needs to enjoy the big house lifestyle and let nature take it’s course with equal sick minded heathens.

    • I’m sorry but I dont buy the poor distressed suspect who feels threatened, manipulated defense. She actively participated in the recording. She knew it was wrong by the social media post between the two. And any adult human being should know that is a child, a child’s life, and wellbeing they are screwing up. Not sure how either can live with themselves but then again most humans gave souls where animals don’t.

  • After June 25 Murphy-Johnson will be
    getting a taste of his own medicine. He’ll be taking showers with two guys named Jamal and Hector, if you know what I mean.

  • This evil couple deserve the maximum sentence possible. Too bad they can’t be executed. Maybe another prisoner will do us a favor.

    • They aren’t a couple lol they never dated he groomed henn since she was 13, but they never dated.

  • A wood chipper is the only appropriate sentence for crimes this heinous.

  • These animals deserve the death penalty, but they won’t even get the max sentence for their crimes due to our compromised justice system.

    Expect these kinds of cases to increase as millions of vulnerable children are trafficked across our non-existent southern border with the full knowledge and approval of the ruling political class. Sickening.

  • So, since it’s a federal case they don’t get the Death penalty, under Biden’s DOJ? 🤡👹💩

    • Not true. The federal death penalty is still in force and the mass shootings in Buffalo and Pittsburg are death penalty cases.

      I am opposed to the death penalty, but not out of sympathy for the perpetrators. A very close relative sought and gained a federal death penalty as a federal prosecutor though he opposed it’s use in that case. It was out his hands as the US Attorney with agreement from Washington makes those decisions, which are highly political. The victim’s family opposed the death penalty in that case because it turned the trial and activities leading up to and from it into a 3 ring circus.

      The evidence does not show that the death penalty is a greater deterrent to crime than life imprisonment. The cases drag on for years and cost more than life imprisonment would, because we rightly need to be very sure before executing someone, victims families may or may not favor that outcome, and the family of the perpetrator who are assumed to be innocent are pulled into it more. It makes us feel better – and maybe some victims’ families – but otherwise is an expensive extension of the trauma the original crime created.

      • Well said, Jazz.

        I personally don’t have a problem with the death penalty in the most extreme cases. Some people just need to go.

        My problem is there is no room for mistakes and everyone seems wants to find a nice way to do the dirty work. In an effort to make it more humane and appealing I think they have created an additional problem.

        That being said: That dude never needs to walk as a free man again in his life. Her life is wrecked no matter what.

        Feds don’t play games with this stuff.

        • Yes, assurances that a life sentence is for life is the only way elimination of the death penalty should work.

  • If these 2 don’t get Life then there is no reason for life sentences. And I can almost guarantee you that these two were smoking meth- that is the devil’s drug and the only thing I can think of that could turn someone into this perverted of a state.

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