WASHINGTON, June 16 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Attorney's office for XXXXXX (insert district) issued the following press release:
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A Birmingham man has pleaded guilty to producing child sexual abuse material, announced U.S. Attorney Phillip W. Williams Jr.
After jury selection in a trial before Chief U.S. District Judge Madeline H. Haikala, Robert Lee Ford, Jr., 35, pleaded guilty to two-counts of sexual exploitation of children.
According to the plea agreement, on January 24, 2025, a deputy with the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office was dispatched to Children's of Alabama hospital after receiving a report of an assault on a child. The child's mother reported that her 14-year-old daughter had been assaulte...