United States v. Bobby Glenn Wall

Baton Rouge, LA criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with Receipt and distribution of Child pornography

FATHER AND SON DUO SENTENCED TO FEDERAL PRISON FOR DISTRIBUTION AND RECEIPT OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY

Bobby Glenn Wall, Jr., age 46, of Parchman, Mississippi, was convicted for distribution and receipt of child pornography.



On December 14, 2021, while using the Facebook Messenger application on a cell phone in the Wilkinson County Jail in Mississippi, Wall, Jr. knowingly transmitted five images of child pornography to his father, Bobby Glenn Wall, in Denham Springs Louisiana, with each image depicting a prepubescent female. Wall Jr. had access to, at a minimum, 100 images of child pornography that he sent to his own Facebook Messenger account, five of which he then sent to his father in Denham Springs via Facebook Messenger.



His father, Bobby Glenn Wall, age 68, of Denham Springs, Louisiana, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge John W. deGravelles to 160 months in federal prison following his conviction for the same incident involving distribution and receipt of child pornography. Wall must serve five years of supervised release upon completing his term of imprisonment and ordered to register as a sex offender upon his release.



According to admissions made as part of his guilty plea, Wall knowingly received five images of child pornography on his Facebook Messenger application, from his son, Wall, Jr. Wall received one image of child pornography from his son, and, after telling his son "to keep them coming,” received 15 additional images of child pornography, to include images depicting masturbation and sex acts.



This matter was investigated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security - Homeland Security Investigations and is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Paul L. Pugliese.