Danny Ray Murphy felt emotional as he read a letter to his casualty in the prior minutes he was condemned to 40 years in government jail Friday

Alex Thomas
3 min readOct 27, 2017

The 3-year-old kid, whose name Danny Ray Murphy yet does not know, was more than once assaulted and the two pictures and video of the crime rape were sent to Murphy. The jury who indicted Murphy heard amid trial that he had been exchanging or sending messages and receiving with the abuser via social networking media for a considerable period of time, requesting for more pictures and video.

He arranged with the abuser to meet to sexually attack the kid together, and at one point recommended utilizing the Santa Rosa County fire station where Murphy worked, in light of the fact that it had a soundproof room.

“Not exclusively are you a victim, you’re a survivor, and ideally you never recognize what it is you survived,” Murphy read amid condemning.

Chatting through messages began in late 2016 when Murphy reacted to a Craigslist commercial about sexual desires.

The discussion swung to sexually ambushing a young child, and proceeded for a considerable months until Murphy got arrested. Covert agents captured another man in association with the wrongdoing, Charles McConnell, and assumed control over his online identification to find Murphy.

Murphy requested mercy considering the reality that he worked as a first responder, a previous Marine and a man without a criminal history. Murphy compared himself to a PC program that runs proficiently amid as long as it can remember, yet incidentally breakdowns.

In any case, Chief District Judge M. Casey Rodgers didn’t concur, calling it one of the saddest and most disastrous cases she had seen. Rodgers and Assistant U.S. Lawyer David Goldberg read parts of the text messages between the attacker and Murphy, keeping up that despite the fact that Murphy did not physically touch the kid, he requested for making the child pornography soliciting more pictures.

Amid trial, Murphy stood firm and at first said he was just sending the messages trying to spare the young boy. He said he thought that if he could plan a meeting, he would have the capacity to inform the experts.

However, in condemning, Murphy said he doesn’t know why he carried out the violations.

“I can’t start to comprehend the wicked mind and heart you have,” Rodgers told Murphy.

Rodgers condemned Murphy to the most extreme permitted sentence for the violations, which is 40 years. Upon discharge, he won’t be permitted to possess a PC, cellphone or utilize the web, and he will be on lifetime supervision.

A third man accused in the similar case, Jonah Authement, argued no challenge to his charges this week. Authement also was charged with a large number of child pornography offenses for exchanging messages with McConnell about meeting to sexually assault the child. He also was captured based on undercover agents’ messages to plan for meeting up for the abuse.

The records in the court discover Authement will be sentenced Dec. 14.
McConnell was accused of 38 offenses including sexual battery, encouraging sexual execution of a young guy, and child pornography ownership.

His case is as yet progressing in Escambia County Court and his next docket day is planned for December.

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Alex Thomas

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