Feds Announce Indictment of Annapolis Man on Child Sex Abuse Allegations

 Federal authorities recently announced that a grand jury has indicted an Annapolis resident in connection with child sex abuse allegations.

Shawn Casey Livingston (who remains innocent until proven guilty in a court of law), 38, is charged with two counts of coercion and enticement of minors and 12 counts of receipt of child sexual abuse material. Livingston, who is reportedly an information technology professional, was formerly employed by an Annapolis private school, according to a press release by the US Attorneys Office in Baltimore.

According to the press release, beginning in 2022, Livingston utilized several Snapchat internet-based accounts to meet and communicate with minor females. Livingston allegedly used the social media accounts to coerce and entice the minor victims to send visual depictions of themselves engaged in sexually explicit conduct in exchange for money. "He sent payments via peer-to-peer payment applications including CashApp and Venmo. Livingston received sexually explicit depictions of at least five minor victims, who were between 15 and 16 years old, and living throughout the United States," federal prosecutors say. 

If convicted, Livingston faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years and a maximum sentence of life in federal prison for each count of coercion and enticement, and a minimum sentence of five years and maximum sentence of 20 years for each count of receipt of child sexual abuse material.

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