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A Lebanon man will serve four decades in federal prison after he was convicted of taking sexually explicit footage of a minor and saving the images and videos to his laptop.
U.S. District Judge James Hanlon sentenced Douglas Gibson, 40, to 40 years in federal prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release, after he pleaded guilty to sexual exploitation of a minor and committing a felony offense while required to register as a sex offender.
According to court documents, between 2018 and 2021, Gibson gained access to Minor Victim 1, who was born in 2011.
During that time, Gibson placed hidden cameras in the child’s bedroom and bathroom shower drain to surreptitiously record her while showering and getting changed. Gibson then saved images and videos depicting the child in various stages of nudity to his laptop.
Gibson also distributed and possessed images and videos of other unknown prepubescent children engaged in sexually explicit conduct on his laptop. These files were uploaded and shared with other users on a social medial platform through private chat rooms.
Gibson is a convicted sex offender and was required to register from at least September 2011 to September 2021 due to his 2010 conviction of sexual misconduct of a minor in Boone County.
“Simply put, Douglas Gibson is a danger to children,” said Tom Wheeler, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, in a news release. “A child’s home should be a sanctuary of safety and love. Instead, this sick abuser took advantage of a child’s vulnerability to sexually exploit them and invade their safety and dignity. The sentence imposed here will ensure that our children are protected from this defendant for decades to come.”
The Federal Bureau of Investigation, Indiana ICAC Task Force, and Boone County C.A.S.E. Task Force investigated this case.
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