A DeLand man has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for attempting to entice a 13-year-old to produce and send him photos depicting her own sexual abuse.
On Friday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida announced that 38-year-old Shane Christopher Abrams was sentenced to the 15-year prison term, which will be followed by 15 years of supervised release.
Abrams, who pleaded guilty to the federal charge in March 2026, was also ordered to register as a sex offender.
According to court records, an undercover Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent posing as a 13-year-old girl began communicating with a social media user named “Malicious_Malediction” on April 3, 2024. The user was subsequently identified as Abrams.
During the online conversation, the undercover agent informed Abrams that she was 13 years old, and he proceeded to ask inappropriate questions about her body and sexual experience.
Between April 4 and April 20, 2024, Abrams and the agent exchanged numerous text messages, and Abrams repeatedly asked the “girl” to send him “photos of her genitalia.”
While communicating with the agent, Abrams provided “explicit instructions as to how to comply with his demands.” In an effort to entice the “girl,” Abrams also sent the agent sexually explicit files, including a video and photos of his own genitalia.
On May 20, 2024, FBI agents located Abrams in a parking lot near his workplace in South Daytona and placed him under arrest.
The case was investigated by the FBI and the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide Department of Justice initiative launched in 2006 to combat the epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.