{"id":6323,"date":"2026-10-24T06:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T11:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/24\/franklin-county-man-gets-25-years-for-child-exploitation\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T06:06:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T11:06:03","slug":"franklin-county-man-gets-25-years-for-child-exploitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/24\/franklin-county-man-gets-25-years-for-child-exploitation\/","title":{"rendered":"Franklin County Man Gets 25 Years for Child Exploitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Federal prosecutors say Justin E. Faldon produced and distributed child sexual abuse material through an online messaging platform, leading to a federal investigation and a 25-year prison sentence. ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 October 24, 2026 (STL.News) A 36-year-old Franklin County, Missouri, man has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison after admitting to producing and distributing child sexual abuse material involving minors, according to the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri. Justin E. Faldon received the sentence Thursday, October 22, 2026, from U.S. District Judge Cristian M. Stevens in St. Louis. The sentencing followed Faldon\u2019s<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/franklin-county-man-gets-25-years-child-exploitation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal prosecutors say Justin E. Faldon produced and distributed child sexual abuse material through an online messaging platform, leading to a federal investigation and a 25-year prison sentence. ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 October 24, 2026 (STL.News) A 36-year-old Franklin County,&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6325,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6323\/revisions\/6325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}