Opinion ID: 4537255
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Heading: Goodin’s Criminal Activity

Text: In August 2018, the FBI’s office in Salt Lake City received a complaint regarding a twelveyear-old female (“Victim 1”) who sent pornographic images of herself to an adult male using the -1- No. 19-3554, United States v. Goodin mobile messaging application Kik. Victim 1 met someone with the username “Shorty853” on a different application called Live.me, and Shorty853 asked Victim 1 to download Kik instead. She did so, registering with the username “Fungirl12901.” As a result of their interactions, Victim 1 believed that Shorty853 was also a minor female. Once Victim 1 was on Kik, Shorty853 sent her sexually explicit images of an underage girl, whom Victim 1 believed to be the user behind Shorty853. Victim 1 then sent Shorty853 images of herself in return. At some point, Shorty853 told Victim 1 that another Kik user—SamBam01—was harassing Shorty853 and had threatened to tell Shorty853’s cousin that she was on Kik. Victim 1 contacted SamBam01 and told him to leave Shorty853 alone. In response, SamBam01 told Victim 1 to send him sexually explicit photographs, which would buy his silence. She complied. Later, SamBam01 again contacted Victim 1 and threatened to expose both her and Shorty853 unless she sent him more explicit images. Again, Victim 1 acquiesced to his demands. As it turns out, both Shorty853 and SamBam01 were the same person: Christopher Goodin. Investigators were able to trace the Shorty853 username to an account on a dating website called “Plenty of Fish.” Goodin was the owner of that account and had instructed people on Plenty of Fish to contact him through Kik using his Shorty853 account as well. After identifying Goodin, the FBI executed a search warrant at his home and recovered two mobile phones and two laptops. In addition to the two Kik accounts and images of Victim 1, those devices also contained thousands of other photographs and videos of child pornography. These images are described in detail in the presentence investigation report (“PSR”) and included infants and toddlers, bestiality, bondage, urination, and defecation. Many of these images depicted victims of child pornography known to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. -2- No. 19-3554, United States v. Goodin The FBI’s search of Goodin’s devices also identified a second minor female victim, a fourteenyear-old living in Ohio (“Victim 2”).