Overview
- Judge Roderick C. Young sentenced Randon Alexander Sprinkle to 10 years in federal prison after his March conviction for distribution of child sexual abuse material, a punishment inside the 5-to-20 year statutory range.
- Prosecutors said an FBI undercover agent posing as the parent of a 9-year-old engaged Sprinkle in May 2025, during which he sent a video depicting sexual abuse and expressed intent to meet the purported child.
- An October 16, 2025, search of Sprinkle’s Richmond home recovered a cellphone with 43 CSAM files and a laptop with two additional files, including images of toddlers that prosecutors cited as key evidence.
- Sprinkle’s roles in Virginia Democratic politics and LGBTQ groups prompted rapid severing of ties and returned donations from campaigns and organizations that had worked with him.
- The case was prosecuted under Project Safe Childhood, illustrating how agents use undercover online stings and digital forensic seizure of phones and computers to build federal child exploitation cases.