Kevin Lillis, Distributing Child Sexual Abuse Material, Louisiana 2024

Kevin Lillis, 51, Pleads Guilty to Distributing Child Sexual Abuse Material in Louisiana

A Metairie man has been found guilty of distributing child sexual abuse material after a lengthy investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

KEVIN LILLIS, a 51-year-old resident of Metairie, Louisiana, pleaded guilty to distributing child sexual abuse material (CSAM), in violation of 18, United States Code, Section 2252(a)(2), according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

According to court documents, FBI agents executed a search warrant at LILLIS’s residence in March 2024 and seized electronic devices containing files depicting the sexual victimization of children and obscene visual representations of the sexual abuse of children.

The items seized included over 600 images and 6 videos, one of which was almost 12 minutes long, depicting the sexual victimization of children, as well as dozens of other images and videos depicting obscene visual representations.

LILLIS distributed the files numerous times between January 2024 and March 11, 2024. Agents also discovered conversations LILLIS had with other individuals on encrypted messaging applications during 2023-2024, in which LILLIS admitted having hands-on sexual contact with multiple young prepubescent minors over the past two decades.

LILLIS faces a mandatory minimum of five years in prison up to a maximum of 20 years imprisonment, as to each of Counts 1, 2, and 3. He also faces at least five years, and up to a lifetime, of supervised release and up to a $250,000 fine per count, as well as a $300 mandatory special assessment fee.

Sentencing before Judge Jane Triche Milazzo has been scheduled for May 14, 2025.

The case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Acting U.S. Attorney Michael M. Simpson praised the work of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in investigating this matter. Assistant United States Attorney Jordan Ginsberg, Chief of the Public Integrity Unit, is in charge of the prosecution.

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