Erin Rafferty and Christopher Love
Coosa Valley News reported that 42-year-old Christopher Love of Euharlee was sentenced to 22 years in a federal prison this week following his conviction of enticing a child to produce child pornography. Love, who pleaded guilty, will also receive ten years of supervised release.
A BCSO investigator was forwarded a tip from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s Internet Crimes Against Children Unit concerning child pornography being downloaded by Christopher Love and Erin Rafferty in Euharlee.
Within a couple of days of receiving the GBI tip, Bartow County Criminal Investigators were also contacted by a citizen in the county concerning the possession of child pornography by the same people.
On December 21st 2015, another tip came in that there was possibly a juvenile in the neighborhood that was or would soon be in danger of being sexually exploited by the couple. A search warrant for their house at 276 Milam Bridge Rd Lot 21 was executed the next day by Bartow County Investigators and an agent with Homeland Security.
Love and Rafferty both admitted to downloading and watching child pornography together. They were arrested and transported to the Bartow County Jail without incident. Rafferty pleaded guilty this past December and was sentenced to 18 years in prison.
Authorities said that they found over 4,000 images related to child pornography during a search of the couple’s home. Both Love and Rafferty are still facing 15 counts of sexual exploitation of a child, three counts of child molestation, one count of meth possession, and one count of reckless conduct.