Evergreen Reporter

A Montgomery, Alabama man has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for producing child sexual abuse material. Acting United States Attorney Kevin Davidson announced that on January 30, 2025, a federal judge ordered Cleveland Dewayne Chambers, aged 49, to serve 240 months in prison. After completing his sentence, Chambers will be on supervised release for seven years. There is no parole in the federal system.

According to Chambers' plea agreement and other court records, law enforcement in Pennsylvania was conducting a child exploitation investigation in July 2022 involving an individual in Eaton. During this investigation, electronic communications were discovered that led investigators to suspect Chambers' involvement in producing or sharing illegal images of children. Further inquiries revealed that from March 2022 through July 2022, Chambers directed a woman in St. Louis, Missouri, to create sexually explicit images and videos involving her two-year-old child. Chambers then shared and distributed these materials using a messaging application on his cellphone.

"Protecting children from exploitation is one of law enforcement’s most important responsibilities," stated Acting United States Attorney Davidson. "Producing and trading in child sexual abuse material is an incredibly tragic crime that robs children of their innocence and inflicts long-lasting harm. While all child sexual exploitation is unacceptable, the sexual abuse of a two-year-old is absolutely reprehensible. I applaud the efforts of all the agencies involved in this case for stopping Chamber’s criminal activity before more children were victimized."

This case was part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched by the Department of Justice in May 2006 to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. The project aims to marshal federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet and identify and rescue victims.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Investigation (HSI) investigated this case with assistance from the Montgomery Police Department and the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency. Assistant United States Attorney Tara S. Ratz prosecuted the case.