Washington – The US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia has announced that 42-year-old Lucas Allen Fussell has pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the distribution of child pornography to an undercover law enforcement officer in June 2024.

On December 18, Fussell pleaded guilty to two counts of Distribution of Child Pornography. He will appear for a sentencing hearing on May 6, 2025.

Court papers explain that Fussell used an anonymous account on an end-to-end encrypted messaging application to exchange videos and images containing child porn with another individual on December 20, 2023 to February 7, 2024.

The other individual’s phone was seized and searched by the FBI pursuant to a search warrant. Fussell shared details during those conversations that revealed his identity.

Those details included his home address, a description of his vehicle, and numerous sexualized comments about examining the genitals of patients some as young as 11 years old.

In June 2024, an undercover agent with the FBI-MPD Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force contacted Fussell using the seized phone. On June 22, 2024 and June 30, 2024, Fussell sent the agent numerous images and videos depicting the rape and sexual abuse of prepubescent boys.

The FBI carried out a search warrant at Fussell’s residence in Onley, Virginia on June 16, 2024, and seized multiple electronic devices. Fussell has been in custody ever since.

At sentencing, Fussell will face a mandatory minimum of five years and a statutory maximum of 40 years in prison.