Man Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison for Recording Sexual Abuse of 8-Year-Old
Jacob J. Hampton receives a quarter-century prison term for secretly filming abuse of an 8-year-old girl in Missouri.
Robert Patrick, U.S. Attorney's Office
ST. LOUIS – U.S. District Judge Henry E. Autrey on Tuesday, May 19, 2026, sentenced a man who recorded his sexual abuse of an 8-year-old to 25 years in prison.Jacob J. Hampton, 33, placed a hidden camera in a bathroom to record an 8-year-old girl. Police found images on Hampton’s phone of Hampton abusing the victim, as well as child sexual abuse material that he’d obtained online.Hampton, of O’Fallon, Missouri, pleaded guilty in January of 2025 to one count of production ...
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