INDIANAPOLIS – The United States Attorney’s Office-Southern District of Indiana announced Friday that a Bartholomew County man has been sentenced to over 27 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to three counts of sexual exploitation of a child and attempted sexual exploitation of a child.
According to court documents, Jordan Fields, 21, of Columbus, sexually exploited children in Indiana and California, and admitted to other acts of exploitation against unknown minors. In the fall of 2020, law enforcement in California notified authorities in Indiana that Fields had engaged in sexually explicit Snapchat communications with a 13-year-old boy in California.
The Bartholomew County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO) executed a search warrant at Fields’ home on Nov. 13, 2020. He was initially arrested on state charges of child solicitation and possession of child pornography. Indiana State Police, BCSO, and the FBI reviewed evidence seized, and Fields was then arrested on federal sexual exploitation charges in March 2021.
Fields pleaded guilty to three counts of sexual exploitation of three southern Indiana children.
As part of the sentence, the judge ordered that the defendant be supervised by the U.S. Probation Office for 20 years after his release and also ordered Fields to pay $10,000 each to four minor victims.