KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A Leavenworth, Kansas man was sentenced in federal court this week for enticement of a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity and production child pornography, involving a 15-year-old minor victim, according to the United State's Attorney.
Antoine Askari Richardson, 27, was sentenced to 300 months imprisonment by U.S. District Judge D. Gregory Kays for one count of use of interstate facility to entice a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity and one count of production of child pornography.
Richardson, a former graduate student and employee of a private University, in Leavenworth, Kansas, previously pled guilty to enticement of a minor and production of child pornography on February 27, 2025. According to the written plea agreement, Richardson met the minor victim on a social media application.
Richardson communicated online with the minor victim and travelled to Grain Valley, Missouri to engage in sexual acts with the minor victim four times between November 2022 and January 2023. Richardson recorded the sexual acts with his cellular phone and sent the videos to the minor victim. Richardson admitted to also communicating with a second minor on a social media application and engaging in sexually explicit conversations with the second minor. Richardson admitted to traveling across state lines in attempt to meet the second minor but was unsuccessful in contacting the second minor.
This case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Maureen A. Brackett. It was investigated by the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the Grain Valley, Missouri Police Department, Leavenworth, Kansas Police Department, and the Jackson County, Missouri Prosecutor’s Office.
Richardson will be required to register as a sex offender upon his release from prison and will be subject to federal and state sex offender registration requirements, which may apply throughout his life.