Kirk R. Cazee, Child Pornography, Oregon 2021

An Oregon man was sentenced to 17 years in prison for coercing and persuading multiple minors to send him sexually explicit photos and videos of themselves over the internet.

Kirk R. Cazee, 60, of Warrenton, Oregon, was sentenced to 204 months in prison after pleading guilty to production of child pornography on April 28, 2021.

Cazee was also sentenced to serve 99 years of supervised release and to register as a sex offender after completion of his prison term.

According to court documents and testimony, in March 2010, a CyberTipline Report from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) identified an email address that had been involved in the exchange of child pornography. Law enforcement traced the email address back to Cazee’s residence.

Further investigation showed that beginning in 2006 and continuing to 2010, Cazee engaged in email and text communications with multiple minor victims. During the communications, Cazee posed as a teenage boy and coerced the minors to take sexually explicit photos and videos of themselves and to send the content to Cazee.

The case was investigated by the Oregon Department of Justice and the FBI.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse, launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and the CEOS, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.justice.gov/psc.

Anyone with information on suspected child sexual exploitation can contact the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children at 800-843-5678, or https://report.cybertip.org.

Defendant: Kirk R. Cazee, City: Warrenton, State: Oregon, Crime: production of child pornography, Date: April 28, 2021, Sentence: 204 months in prison and 99 years of supervised release.

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