Denny Minix, Child Sex Abuse, Indiana 2024

HAMMOND, INDIANA - A repeat sex offender has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for producing child sexual abuse images of a 16 to 17 year-old minor female.

Denny Minix, 32, of Lafayette, Indiana, was sentenced by Judge Philip P. Simon following his guilty plea to a charge that he produced child sexual abuse images of a 16 to 17 year-old minor female, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.

Minix was sentenced to 300 months (25 years) in prison followed by a lifetime term of supervised release. The sentence was increased as a result of his earlier conviction for possessing child sexual abuse material in 2010.

After being released from prison on that offense, Minix posed as a gay woman on various social media platforms and offered to and did distribute depictions of minors being sexually abused and exploited. Following an investigation, Minix was found with over 6,300 such images and videos, some of which he had made himself while engaging in sexual acts with the 16 to 17 year-old victim.

As part of his plea agreement in the case, Minix agreed to have no future contact with the victim and to pay $10,000 toward her future therapy and lost income expenses.

“Not long after being released from prison on his first child pornography offense, Minix found it impossible to resist committing other, more serious child exploitation offenses. My office is committed to prosecuting repeat sex offenders like Mr. Minix to the fullest extent of the law,” said United States Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II.

This case is the result of the investigative efforts of the Federal Bureau of Investigation with assistance from the Tippecanoe County, Indiana Prosecutor’s Office and the Purdue University Police Department. The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jill R. Koster.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndin/pr/repeat-sex-offender-sentenced-25-years-prison