Mingo County Man Heading To Prison For Production Of Child Pornography
Friday, April 25, 2025, 7:15 A.M. ET. 2 Minute Read, By Art Fletcher: Englebrook Independent News,
CHARLESTON, W.VA.- On Wednesday, a 25-year-old Williamson, West Virginia, man found out he would be spending the next 15 years in federal prison after being sentenced for photographing a 3-year-old child and possessing digital images and video files depicting the sexual exploitation and sexual abuse of prepubescent children.
On Wednesday, April 23, 2025, Cameron Drake Newsome, 25, of Williamson, West Virginia, appeared in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia and was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Irene C. Berger to 180 months in federal prison, to be followed by ten years of supervised release for his conviction of Production of Child Pornography.
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In handing down the sentence on Wednesday, in addition to the term of imprisonment, Judge Berger ordered Newsome to pay $7,000 in restitution to his victim and order him to register as a sex offender in the national database.
According To Acting U.S. Attorney Lisa G. Johnston
According to Acting U.S. Attorney Lisa G. Johnston and charging documents filed with the District Court, on or about November 1, 2019, Newsome utilized his cellular phone to take two photographs of a 3-year-old child in Williamson, West Virginia, while the child was naked from the waist down and with the child’s genitals as the focal point of the images.
During his previous plea allocution, Newsome admitted to taking the photographs and storing them on an online file storage account. By storing those images in the online account, Newsome transported the images in and affecting interstate commerce over the internet.
Newsome further admitted that he stored numerous other digital images and video files in the online file storage account depicting the sexual exploitation and abuse of children, including prepubescent children engaged in sexually explicit conduct, including some with adults.
The case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2026 by the U.S. Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.
