Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division
Memphis, TN – Michael Fruitticher, 38, of Jackson, Tennessee, has been sentenced to 40 years in federal prison for child pornography offenses committed against an autistic child. D. Michael Dunavant, United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the sentence today.In October 2025, after a four-day trial, a federal jury found Fruitticher guilty of production, attempted production, and possession of child pornography. According to information presented at the trial, between at least July 2011 and continuing through May 2014, Fruitticher video-recorded the child nude in the shower, photographed the child nude and in…