A Kansas City, Mo., man has been sentenced in federal court for illegally enticing a child victim to engage in illicit sexual activity and for receiving child pornography.
Anthony Byron Marshall, 31, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Roseann A. Ketchmark on Wednesday, Feb. 28, to 25 years in federal prison without parole. The court also sentenced Marshall to spend the rest of his life on supervised release following incarceration. Marshall will be required to register as a sex offender upon his release from prison and will be subject to federal and state sex offender registration requirements, which may apply throughout his life.
On July 25, 2023, Marshall pleaded guilty to one count of enticing a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity and four counts of receiving child pornography.
In May 2021, FBI agents learned Marshall had been texting with the subject of another child pornography investigation. In one text, Marshall requested images of child pornography and received a MEGA link. FBI investigators located the MEGA link, which contained 15 images and 89 videos of known child pornography and 70 images and 1,401 videos of suspected child pornography.
On Oc.t 19, 2021, federal agents executed a search warrant at Marshall’s residence. Agents seized several electronics, including Marshall’s iPhone. Investigators found sexually explicit communications between Marshall and two juvenile females, ages 13 and 17, as well as sexually explicit videos that each of the victims had sent to Marshall. Investigators interviewed the child victims, who reported several instances of illegal sexual activity with Marshall.
According to court documents, Marshall called one of the child victims after he had been contacted by law enforcement. He told her not to say anything to the police. Marshall also contacted her through his Facebook page after she had been contacted by law enforcement.
This case prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Catherine A. Connelly. It was investigated by the FBI.
