An Anchorage man received a 20-year sentence followed by 20-years of supervised release for sex trafficking a minor and production and possession of child pornography. He also was also ordered to pay $23,070 in restitution.
39-year-old Jayshon Moore, aka “China,” began having sexual encounters with the underage victim when she was 15 years old, according to court documents. In 2018, he created numerous sexually explicit videos of the minor which were saved on social media, two of the child pornography videos specifically on Snapchat. In spring of 2019, Moore sex trafficked the victim, who was 16 at the time, setting prices, arranging transactions, and taking the money she earned from the acts.
Moore was previously convicted of drug trafficking and firearms offenses, and he was arrested in June 2019 after violating terms of his supervised release. After a search of Moore’s residence, additional evidence was uncovered of sex trafficking. He was convicted by a federal jury in April 2022.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force and the Anchorage Police Department investigated the case. The task force marshals federal, state, and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children through sex trafficking, as well as to identify and recover victims.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Jennifer Ivers and Michael Ebell prosecuted the case. The announcement was made by U.S. Attorney S. Lane Tucker of the District of Alaska and Special Agent in Charge Antony Jung of the FBI Anchorage Field Office.