Lohman man pleads guilty to federal child porn charges

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

A Lohman man pleaded guilty on Wednesday to federal child sex abuse material charges, according to a press release from the Department of Justice.

Anthony Dale Pitts-Fugate, 33, pleaded guilty to two counts of producing child sex abuse materials in separate cases. Charges were filed in 2023.

The release says an undercover agent for the FBI was monitoring aa “public online group” that were sending child sex abuse materials to each other, which included Pitts-Fugate sending images of a young child.

The release says Pitts-Fugate contacted a 16-year-old girl and requested sexual images from the youth. FBI agents applied for a search warrant for his SnapChat accounts and determined Pitts-Fugate portrayed himself as a 16-year-old to convince minors to give him child sex abuse materials, the release says.

Court documents in previous reporting claim Pitts-Fugate sent child sex abuse materials to an undercover FBI agent in a KIK chatroom.