Brad Schimel, First Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on September 22, 2026, Ahmad Chadwick Houston Elliott, (age 26) of West Palm Beach, Florida, was sentenced to five years in federal prison by United States District Judge Lynn Adelman.
Over the course of five months, Elliott, who was twenty-one years old at the time, contacted a twelve-year-old Milwaukee girl on Facebook. He convinced her to send him naked pictures and videos of herself. When law enforcement spoke to Elliott, he admitted to instructing the victim to be alone in her room so they would not get caught and to delete any pictures or videos from her phone.
At his sentencing hearing, Judge Adelman said these were extremely serious crimes. Upon completion of his federal prison sentence, the defendant will spend five years on supervised release. He will also have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.
“Crimes like this steal innocence from children,” said First Assistant U.S. Attorney Brad Schimel, “and we have no more important mission than to bring child sex predators like this defendant to justice.”
“The FBI is committed to identifying and investigating individuals who seek to victimize children. Mr. Elliott reprehensibly exploited a twelve-year-old child,” said FBI Milwaukee Special Agent in Charge Alan Karr. “The FBI will continue to work alongside our local, state, and federal law enforcement partners to protect children in our Wisconsin communities.”
This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It was prosecuted by Project Safe Childhood Coordinator and Assistant United States Attorney Megan J. Thomas.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006, by the U.S. Department of Justice. Led by U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.
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Source: U.S. Attorney’s Office — Eastern District of Wisconsin — U.S. Department of Justice press release.