A federal jury convicted a local man previously stationed at Fort Stewart for victimizing two children.

Cedrick Demon Robinson, 42, Oxford, Miss., was convicted of Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Child and Attempted Production of a Visual Depiction of a Minor Engaging in Sexually Explicit Conduct following jury trial in the Southern District of Georgia, said Tara M. Lyons, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia. U.S. District Court Chief Judge R. Stan Baker presided over the two-day trial.

“Protecting children from those who would abuse them and seeking justice for sexual predators remains one of our District’s highest priorities,” Lyons said. “We will continue to seek justice for those who would victimize our most vulnerable citizens.”

As described in courtroom testimony, in December 2013, Robinson sexually abused a minor by fondling the child’s genitals when the child was merely 9 years old. Later, in 2017, Robinson requested that another child text him a sexually explicit photograph when the child was 15 years old.

Robinson awaits sentencing upon the U.S. Probation Services completing a presentence investigation.

"Mr. Robinson's conviction is a testament to the diligent work of our special agents and prosecutorial partners at the United States Attorney's Office," said Department of the Army Criminal Investigation Division, Southeast Field Office, Special Agent in Charge Steven Ausfeldt. "Army CID will aggressively pursue anyone who would abuse or exploit our children."

The case was investigated by the Department of the Army Criminal Investigation Division’s Fort Stewart Office and prosecuted for the United States by the Southern District of Georgia Assistant United States Attorneys Michael Z. Spitulnik and Darron J. Hubbard.