Kevin Patrick Carson, Child Pornography, Missouri 2013

A Kansas City man has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for his role in distributing and possessing child pornography.

Kevin Patrick Carson, 35, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Roseann Ketchmark for his crimes, which included attempting to distribute child pornography over the internet, receiving child pornography over the internet, and possessing child pornography.

According to court documents, law enforcement officers utilized a peer-to-peer file-sharing network to download movie files and images of child pornography from Carson’s computer on two separate occasions between February 28 and April 3, 2013.

A forensic examiner found 99 videos of child pornography and 593 images of child pornography, with most of the images depicting child bondage and bestiality. One video even depicted a baby being raped by an adult male.

Carson also admitted to engaging with as many as six underage females via social networking sites, enticing them to send sexually explicit photographs to him over the internet. In at least two cases, he referred to them as his “fiancée.”

Carson's case is part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.

The case was investigated by the FBI and the Kansas City, Mo., Police Department, with the assistance of Assistant U.S. Attorney Catherine A. Connelly.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdmo/pr/kc-man-sentenced-20-years-child-pornography