Former Coffeewood Prison Guard Pleads Guilty to Child Exploitation, Receiving Child Pornography

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – A former prison officer at Coffeewood Correctional Center in Mitchells, Virginia pled guilty recently to a series of federal charges related to child exploitation and child pornography.

Davey Jonathan Sisk, 29, of Culpeper, Virginia, was arrested on February 15, 2024, and pled guilty last month to two counts of sexually exploiting and attempting to sexually exploit a child as well as one count of receiving child pornography. Under the plea agreement, he faces up to 40 years in federal prison.

According to court documents, between June 2023 and February 2024, Sisk used the social media application “Telegram” to engage another individual to create and then send him videos and photos of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. During this time frame, one of the victims was three years old and another was six years old.

In addition, from 2021 through 2022, a now-15-year-old minor living in Texas engaged in sexual intercourse with another minor child and then sold videos and images of these sexual encounters on the internet through various social media applications, including Snapchat. Sisk admitted to using the Snapchat username “JAKESMOOT2021” and to paying approximately $465 through Cash App to the minor in exchange for multiple sexually explicit images and videos.

United States Attorney Christopher R. Kavanaugh made the announcement.

Homeland Security Investigations – Harrisonburg, VA and Washington, D.C. investigated the case.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Sally J. Sullivan is prosecuting the case.