A federal jury has found a 52-year-old Fort McCoy man guilty of two counts of production of child sex abuse material and one count of receipt of child sex abuse material.
United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announced earlier today that Eddie Joe Oglesby, Jr. is facing a minimum mandatory penalty of 15 years, up to 30 years, in federal prison on each of the two production counts. In addition, Oglesby is facing a mandatory penalty of 5 years, up to 20 years, on the receipt count.
A sentencing hearing for Oglesby has been scheduled on February 16, 2023, before Senior United States District Judge John Antoon II. A superseding indictment was returned against Oglesby on September 13, 2022.
According to testimony and evidence that was presented at trial, Oglesby created an elaborate false identity that he used to impersonate a federal agent. He used this false identity to coerce underage female victims to produce and send him sexually explicit images over the internet.
While posing as the false agent, Oglesby threatened to have the victims arrested, imprisoned, institutionalized, or killed if they did not comply with his demands.
On September 27, 2021, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) searched Oglesby’s residence and found him with an underage female runaway. A search of Oglesby’s cellphone showed that he was logged into multiple social media applications under both his real and false identity.
FBI agents ultimately found 473 pages of electronic communications between Oglesby and one of his victims on that cellphone.
This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Marion County Sheriff’s Office, the Weatherford (Texas) Police Department, and the Cobb County (Georgia) Sheriff’s Office. It is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys William S. Hamilton and Hannah J. Nowalk.