Christopher Michael Donovan, Child Pornography Distribution, Missouri 2014

Kansas City Man Sentenced for Child Pornography Distribution

A Kansas City, MO man has been sentenced to six years in federal prison for distributing child pornography over the Internet. Christopher Michael Donovan, 39, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Beth Phillips for his crimes.

On April 19, 2012, Donovan contacted an undercover FBI task force officer in an Internet chat room and sent images and movies of child pornography to the officer. The images and videos included toddlers and a drugged boy of approximately six years of age being molested. Donovan admitted to viewing and sharing child pornography over the Internet for several years.

Kansas City, MO, law enforcement officers searched Donovan’s apartment and recovered a USB storage device that contained 40 movies of child pornography and 13 images of child pornography. Donovan explained to officers that he downloaded child pornography from his computer onto the thumb drive; he no longer had his computer because it had been confiscated by drug dealers.

Donovan will be subject to federal and state sex offender registration requirements, which may apply throughout his life. He must keep his registration current and notify the state sex offender registration agency of any changes to his name, place of residence, employment or student status, or other relevant information.

This case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney David Luna. It was investigated by the Kansas City, Mo., Police Department and the FBI.

Donovan was sentenced to six years in federal prison without parole. He pleaded guilty to distributing child pornography over the Internet on Oct. 15, 2014. The case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.

Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.usdoj.gov/psc.

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