On July 15, 2010, Corp entered an unconditional guilty plea to the government's charge that he violated 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) by producing sexually explicit photographs of a fifteen-year-old girl during a sexual encounter that took place in July 2009. According to a Presentence Investigation Report ("PSR"), Corp met the minor, S.H., on an adult-only dating website sometime in summer 2009. At that time, S.H. told him she was eighteen years old, and the two agreed to meet. S.H. indicated that on the date of their arranged meeting, Corp picked her up at her grandfather's residence and drove her to his home. Shortly after arriving, the two engaged in various sexual acts, including sexual intercourse. After engaging in the sex acts, S.H. recalled that Corp took twenty to thirty nude photographs of her in sexually explicit positions. S.H. also stated that over the course of their encounter, Corp repeatedly asked if he could urinate in her mouth and that she reluctantly acquiesced after Corp promised to allow her to spit out the urine immediately afterward. S.H. testified that after Corp performed the act, however, he grabbed her mouth and forced her to swallow. Corp has disputed this fact. Although he admitted to urinating accidentally in S.H.'s mouth, he denied having forced her to swallow and instead stated that he brought her a towel in which to dispose of the urine.
In early October 2009, the Michigan Department of State Police ("MSP") received a report from a Department of Human Services case worker indicating that S.H. was having sexual relations with two adult men. After S.H. disclosed her encounter with Corp to the MSP, officers executed a search warrant for Corp's residence. During the search, they seized a large number of sexually explicit photographs of women, Corp's laptop, and various other items. On the laptop, law enforcement later discovered about 18,000 images, including photos of S.H. with Corp's penis penetrating her mouth and photographs of S.H.'s face after Corp had ejaculated on it. The search also uncovered a CD-ROM with seven images of another young female, five of which depicted her performing oral sex on Corp. The young female in the photo had orthodontic braces, and the government asserted that it believed her to be under the age of eighteen but was unable to confirm her identity. Corp countered that of the 18,000 photos discovered on his computer, the only ones involving a minor were those of S.H. Although he admitted to having an interest in younger women, he denied ever targeting underage girls.
Corp was convicted of a previous child-pornography offense in July 1999 after he pleaded guilty to violating 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(4)(B) by taking sexually graphic pictures of a seventeen-year-old girl. The PSR described the previous case as involving photos of the seventeen-year-old in the nude and in suggestive positions on the bed with her legs spread apart. A government exhibit containing the actual photos, however, shows the girl engaging in sexual intercourse with Corp and in oral sex with another woman. A separate exhibit contains an excerpt from the 1999 plea hearing, in which Corp admitted that the girl in the photographs was only seventeen. That conviction was later dismissed on the ground that the charges lacked a sufficient nexus to interstate commerce to justify federal jurisdiction.
See United States v. Corp, [UWSL]
236 F.3d 325[/UWSL] (6th Cir.2001).
