Porkwads
2022-04-29 23:02:26 UTC
Very happy to see him fail after his immature ignorant behavior.
A jury found a Diamond man guilty of sexual exploitation ofchildren and coercion or enticement of a minor today at the
conclusion of a two-day trial in U. S. District Court in
Springfield.
The public defenders representing Terry Lee Miksell, 65, made
motions for acquittal both at the conclusion of evidence and
following the announcement of the verdict, a common occurrence
following a guilty verdict. Judge Rosann Ketchmark gave both
sides an April 12 deadline to submit arguments.
The charges against Miksell were detailed in the probable cause
affidavit filed after his initial arrest in January 2020.
On September 17, 2019, Facebook initiated CyberTip 55638136 and
on September 19, 2019 Facebook initiated CyberTip 55765307 with
the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
Facebook initiated the CyberTips after locating sexually
explicit messages and images between a user they believed to be
a minor and another user believed to be a 63-year-old male. The
messages and images were sent between August 13, 2019 and
September 6, 2019.
In CyberTips 5638136 and 55765307 Facebook identified two user
profiles. The first profile identified the user's screen name as
"Terry Miksell". Miksell identified himself as a 63-year-old
male in his profile. The second profile identified by Facebook
was for a 16-year-old minor female.
This affiant reviewed the image he submitted and confirmed it
depicted child pornography, that is Jane Doe, a minor less than
18 years of age, engaged in sexually explicit activity. The
image had been sent from the minor's account to Miksell's accont
during a Facebook Messenger chat.
Facebook provided an except of Facebook Messenger chats between
Miksell and Jane Doe. This affiant reviewed the messages and
confirmed that they are sexually explicit in nature. During the
chats, Miksell asked Jane Doe to send him sexually explicit
images.
Through the course of the investigation, this affiant located a
63-year-old individual named Terry Lee Miksell residing in
Diamond, Missouri.
On January 3, 2020, this affiant applied for and received a
search warrant for Miksell's residence located in Diamond,
Newton County, Missouri.
On January 16, 2020, this affiant and other members of Homeland
Security and Southwest Missouri Cyber Crimes Task Force executed
the search warrant for Miksell's residence.
During a post-Miranda interview with TFO Martin and TFO Charles
Root, Miksell admitted to communicating with Jane Doe through
Facebook and further stated he got carried away during some of
his messages with Jane Doe. Miksell reported that Facebook had
closed both of his accounts for violation of community standards.
Law enforcement seized numerous devices from Miksell's
residence, including Miksell's Alcatel 5041C cell phone.
During law enforcement's preview of the cell phone, several
pictures of Jane Doe were located in Miksell's Facebook
Messenger chats. A short video depicting Jane Doe engaged in
sexually explicit activity was also located.
Following the execution of the search warrant, this affiant
located 16-year-old Jane Doe.
Jane Doe was interviewed by child forensic interview Kim
Stewart. Jane Doe confirmed that Miksell had requested sexually
explicit images and videos of her and Jane Doe stated she had
sent those images and videos at his request.