HONOLULU (KHON2) — Acting U.S. Attorney Kenneth M. Sorensen announced that 31-year-old Jonathan Farr of Honolulu was sentenced in federal court to 151 months of imprisonment, which is over 12 years, followed by 30 years of supervised release for receipt of child pornography, which he pled guilty to back in February 2024.

Farr was sentenced on Feb. 18, and will also have to pay $3,000 in restitution to two minor victims and register as a sex offender upon release.

He admitted that between June 2019 and May 2020 he used the internet to contact two female minors, engaging in sexually explicit conversations with both of them. Farr also solicited and received images and videos of the minors performing sexual acts on themselves and engaged in other explicit content.

At the sentencing, the government said that Farr groomed the minors over time, soliciting their explicit media, and also distributed the media to others, including other minors.

Farr also had conversations regarding buying flights for minors to travel to Hawaiʻi from the mainland to meet him, and vice versa. Farr’s conduct also included additional victims beyond the two minors described in the current federal chargers, according to information provided to the court.

He admitted to law enforcement and told other minor victims that he had hands-on sexual contact with at least three female minors, as well as one other minor, all of which are located in Hawaiʻi.

This case was brought to the court as a part of Project Safe Childhood, a 2006 initiative launched by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.