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Bullitt County Man Sentenced to 30 Years for Producing Child Pornography
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Bullitt County Man Sentenced to 30 Years for Producing Child Pornography

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Michael Mudd, a 47-year-old man from Bullitt County, Kentucky, has been sentenced to 360 months in prison for producing child pornography, announced United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.

According to court documents, Mudd admitted to photographing and video recording two male children inside his residence and outside at a small lake near the trailer park where he lived. The images were created between the fall of 2013 and May 2014.

A 12-year-old boy identified the abuse and a staff member with Family and Children’s Place in Louisville, Kentucky, conducted a forensic interview with the child. The child described multiple occasions during which Mudd photographed and video recorded him engaging in sexually explicit conduct.

Mudd was arrested on August 25, 2014, on a criminal complaint and later indicted on September 18, 2014. He pleaded guilty to two separate counts of producing child pornography on June 17, 2015.

The case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by the United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, 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.

Mudd will serve a lifetime of supervised release after his prison term. The United States Postal Inspection Service, with assistance from the Bullitt County Sheriff’s Office, conducted the investigation. Assistant United States Attorney Jo E. Lawless prosecuted the case.