ST LOUIS (News First) – A man from Crawford County has admitted to trying to persuade minors into engaging in sex acts online. 45-year-old Jason Michael Enke pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in St. Louis to one count of receipt of child pornography, one count of distribution of child pornography and one count of coercion and enticement of a minor. Enke admitted that from August 2023 to October 2023, he sent a series of sexually explicit messages through social media and during online chat sessions to five people who identified themselves as minors.
Enke also sent a video of himself and a 16-year-old engaging in sex acts and attempted to persuade the minors to engage in sexual conduct. In November of 2023, the FBI received a CyberTip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that Enke had sent a video containing child pornography to an Instagram user who listed their age as 15. FBI agents performed a court-approved search of Enke’s home near Bourbon and they say they found videos containing child sexual abuse material on his electronic devices. Enke will be sentenced on January 29th.
