Gainesville couple plead guilty to trafficking a child from Texas, producing child porn

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - A couple is pleading guilty to trafficking a child from Texas to Gainesville, Fla. to produce child pornography.

Timothy Frederick Murphy-Johnson, 40, of Gainesville, Florida, and Olivia Ashford Henn, 21, of Orlando, pleaded guilty in federal court to two counts of production of child pornography, one count of conspiracy to produce child pornography. Murphy-Johnson also pleaded guilty to transporting a child for the purpose of sexual abuse.

Prosecutors say Murphy-Johnson took a child from Corpus Christi, Texas to Gainesville in June 2023. For more than a month, the child was held at Murphy-Johnson’s Gainesville home.

They say the child was subjected to “extreme sexual abuse” which both Murphy-Johnson and Henn filmed. Phone and internet records show the couple discussed the abuse and concerns about being arrested.

On July 25, 2023, investigators searching for the missing child executed a search warrant on the Gainesville home and rescued the child. Murphy-Johnson and Hunn were arrested.

Judge Allen C. Winsor will sentence the couple during a hearing at the federal courthouse in Gainesville on June 25 at 11:30 a.m.

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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 arrest is part of Project Safe Childhood, an initiative to combat child sexual exploitation and abuse.

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