Woman says her husband betrayed her, then he pleaded guilty to revenge porn charges

In June 2021, a lawsuit was filed on the behalf of 34 clients suing MindGeek, its affiliate Porn Hub and Visa, claiming they each had been victims of revenge porn.

“As we have alleged in the complaint, MindGeek’s business model incorporated the commercialization of non-consensual content and the credit card companies knowingly allowed them to use their networks to do so,” said Lauren Tabaksblat, one of the attorneys representing the victims in the lawsuit.

Tabaksblat says the “case was severed because the court said we had to proceed with each client in a separate case.”

Currently, there are approximately 100 victims represented who have joined the lawsuit, according to Tabaksblat.

“Not all of whom have yet filed a case,” said Tabaksblat.

The case involving the first victim, Serena Fleites is currently in the discovery phase.

Three of the original 34 victims that initially filed are originally from Wagoner County. All three women allege that the same perpetrator, Jeremiah Sampson uploaded sexual images of them to Porn Hub without their consent.

Christine Cook is listed as Jane Doe No. 31 in the initial lawsuit filing. Cook is Sampson’s ex-wife. Cook is 39 and has served full time in the military since she was 18. She says they both met in Dec. 2016. Cook was a mother to three boys and Sampson had a son of his own.

“I thought that he was, you know, this upstanding great, man. I mean, I knew that my friend wouldn’t introduce me to somebody who could potentially hurt me,” said Cook. “And I knew he’s involved in the kids. He’s a coach, you know, surely they have a background check. I mean, I guess I was naive and all of that. He is very charming. Very smart and involved person. He knows exactly what to say and who to say it to, to get people to believe him. He puts on a very, very good front. But behind closed doors, he’s not really that person.”

When Cook met Sampson she recalls not seeing any red flags. In Nov. 2017, the two were married.

“We moved very quickly. He was just like everything that I thought I wanted. And so we moved very, very quickly. I met him and then I married him in 11 months,” said Cook.

The couple both wanted another child, and according to Cook, both were thrilled when they both learned that they were having a girl.

“It was so positive and so good,” said Cook.

Three and a half months into the marriage, on March 1, 2018, Cook’s seemingly perfect life would suddenly be shattered.

“I was just at work one day and it was just every it was just a normal day at work and I had I got a text message from a friend of mine,” said Cook.

The text urged Cook to meet her privately in her office.

“I thought something was wrong with her. I walk into her office and she shuts the door and she says, ‘There is a video of you on the internet having sex.’ and I was like, ‘No, there’s not.’ And she said, ‘No, no, I’m. I’m pretty sure that it’s you,” said Cook. “She shows me on her phone. I don’t immediately recognize it as myself. But then the longer I look at it, I start to realize that it is, it is me. And so then I’m just like panicked and I’m crying and I fall to the ground and I’m having a panic attack and but I’m so confused on what, what just happened. Like, how this happened.”

Cook says her friend then asked her if it was her husband in the video with her because the video didn’t show Sampson’s face.

“It only showed mine,” said Cook. “I did not know that I was being filmed. I never thought in a million years that anybody, anybody would record somebody that they loved and post it on the internet for the world to see. Never in a million years, I just thought that didn’t exist.”

Furious, Cook immediately called and confronted Sampson.

Cook says Sampson at first didn’t deny recording the video and claimed that the video was just for him and that nobody else was supposed to see it. He denied ever uploading the video.

“As I’m talking to him on the phone and he’s telling me I would never do that. And he says, ‘You know, I didn’t do that.’ And but while I’m doing this, other videos of him with other women start to pop up and I immediately knew that he had done this,” said Cook.

She immediately left work and headed to Sampson who was coaching a soccer practice. Cook demanded to see his phone.

“I immediately take his phone from him and I go to his e-mail and I put the title of this website in his e-mail and a ton of ‘your upload was successful,’ ‘Your upload was successful’ come up. You know, emails from this website to him show up and so obviously I show him that and he just puts his head down,” said Cook.

It would take about 6 months for Cook to actually leave Sampson.

“You know, this all came about a week after we found out we were having a girl. So I was processing a lot. But I quickly found out over the next few months that this was not only who he was, but he was a lot worse than I knew,” said Cook.

This has impacted every single area of Cooks’s life.

“I joined the Air Force when I was 18 years old. And I had worked in this organization for all of these years and so to know that people had potentially seen the most vulnerable and the most private moment was, was so hard. I have always been a very private person. I’ve always been a conservative as far as how I dress, how I act, things I say,” said Cook. “I felt like everyone was looking at me. It. I would have anxiety even driving in the installation. My heart would start pounding. I didn’t want to go through the gate. I would go to my office. Didn’t want to leave my office. I asked to not have to attend meetings. I was a mess. I cried every day. It affected my relationships. I was in a supervisory position, so I couldn’t fulfill some of my duties for a while. Every day, every single day, every day it was hard. For a long time, and it still is. It’s still hard.”

Cook says she has spent hundreds of hours searching online for these videos of her to request to take them down. She’s had to hire companies to help her get the videos removed.

In Sept. 2018, Cook eventually had the courage to press charges against her ex-husband.

In Oct. 2018, the Wagoner County District Attorney filed charges against Cook’s ex-husband.

Sampson pleaded guilty in Sept. of 2022 to nonconsensual dissemination of private sexual images and domestic abuse, assault and battery. Judge Douglas Kirkley ruled that Sampson receive a one-year suspended sentence and a fine of about $800, which included a $75 victim’s compensation for each charge.

In the State of Oklahoma, when Sampson committed the crime against Cook, the punishment for nonconsensual dissemination of private sexual images was up to a year in jail and up to a $1,000 fine and was just a misdemeanor. In 2020, Cook says she helped change the revenge porn state law. It is now considered a felony and if found guilty, punishment can be up to a five-year sentence and a $5,000 fine.

In 2019, Cook hired private investigator Eric Cullen to see if he could track down other alleged victims of Sampson. Cullen has been an investigator for about 18 years. He has investigated the Sampson case for three years. He says the youngest victim said the abuse started at 6 years old. He thinks there could potentially be more victims out there.

“He had been described to me by his victims as a monster and predator. What I would describe him as is someone that has not been held accountable for whatever reason,” said Cullen. “What I couldn’t believe is that nobody has held him accountable to a real level yet he has been able to operate it appears with impunity almost like with some sort of weird criminal force field. It’s really hard for me to believe that a community would allow that, especially a small one like Coweta and a smaller county like Wagnor County. There is a reason we have prisons and I believe he belongs in one of those.”

Coweta Police Department (CPD) has confirmed that since 2014, CPD has received 14 reports, “made involving Jeremiah D. Sampson where he was either a suspect or a violator of a protective order. All 14 were investigated. 13 of the incidents were submitted to the Wagoner County District Attorney for possible charges. One incident is still pending submission to the district attorney.”

The Wagoner County District Attorney’s Office stated that “Our office is well aware of the multitude of allegations against Mr. Sampson, many of which were reported to law enforcement more than a decade later, and our office has taken action in all cases in which there has been sufficient evidence to proceed. In cases where victims report incidents several years later, there are often difficulties in compiling sufficient evidence to support a successful prosecution. We will continue to process all information related to us by law enforcement.”

Alexandria Parker, who is now 30 says she was 13 when she met Sampson who was 17 at the time. They connected at a friend’s 16-year-old birthday party.

Parker said he called her constantly and a few weeks later persuaded her to go to another friend’s birthday party. It was there she says Sampson raped her.

“I was pinned down and I was asked I asked repeatedly not to, that I didn’t want to and I was absolutely forced into having sex when I did not want to,” said Parker. “Afterwards, I was brought back home and made to believe that that was what I wanted and that it would continue.”

Parker says that Sampson continued to abuse her off and on until the age of 16 in secret.

“I mean really convinced that this was a normal relationship I was an only child like this was a big brother thing and that’s what he did,” said Parker. “It was the most emotional, shameful, confusing time I had in my life. There was absolutely nobody that was going to believe me. If I had known that he was going to manipulate other people and hurt other people I would have spoken up. I didn’t know this was like a predator. I just thought it was an older boy that used me and broke me. I had no clue there were going to be people that were going to go through even more than what I went through. Like, what I went through was not okay. I was convinced at 13 years old that I was in love and I was to do whatever sexual favors or needs this person wanted when they told me to if that meant sneaking out of my house going places and being places at clubs. I was in clubs, bars at 13,14,15 years old that I should not have been in. I would not have been doing those things if I had not been so convinced that I was absolutely in love with this person and they were going to take care of me and love me forever,” said Parker.

Parker says she was around 28 when she finally filed a police report with CPD.

“I chose to use my voice regardless of how many people did not like it because I know that even if I give one person justice or one victim a voice, then I did my job,” said Parker.

Cullen believes there are more victims of Sampson out there. The private investigator encourages anyone who believes they may be a victim of Sampson to contact his office, Cullen Investigations and to file a police report.

“At the very least, police reports need to be filed by all these victims,” said Cullen. “And they need to follow up. They need to be asking what’s going on with their case.”

Cook now lives out of state with her three sons and daughter. She describes herself as a much more cautious person now and not as trusting as she once was.

“Looking back I should have never married him. It was supposed to be a day of celebration. But, I married a lie,” said Cook.

“I’m not wanting to hurt Jeremiah. I never wanted to hurt him. I just want him to stop hurting other people,” said Cook.

FOX23 reached out to Sampson several times and even contacted his attorney to be a part of this story and has not heard back.

Cook says she recently got promoted.

“That was a huge victory that I worked very hard over the years to receive. And I know I deserved it,” said Cook.

It has been quite a journey working to repair her life.

“Two years ago, I probably would have said I don’t know that I ever will be able to move on. And I still have days. I still have days that are really, really hard. And it’s hard to talk about. It’s hard to tell the story. Because it’s embarrassing. It’s embarrassing to know something like this actually happened. But how do you move on? A lot of therapy,” said Cook. “I felt it was important to tell my story because there are people out there that, that need to know they’re not alone, that if it’s happened to them, that you can recover from it. Even if life will never be the same.”

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