Patrick Kellam, Transporting Child Pornography, OK, 2023

A federal judge in Arkansas has handed down a six-year prison sentence to Patrick Kellam, a 43-year-old man from Broken Bow, Oklahoma, for transporting child pornography across state lines.

Kellam was sentenced to 72 months in federal prison and 15 years of supervised release on one count of Transportation of Child Pornography. The sentencing hearing took place before the Honorable Susan O. Hickey in the United States District Court in Texarkana.

According to the Plea Agreement, in March of 2013, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) had been notified that a cell phone and email address confirmed to belong to customer Patrick Kellam accessed and attempted to upload images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. NCMEC notified the Arkansas State Police who turned the investigation over to Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) who were able to locate Kellam in Broken Bow after he had moved there from Arkansas.

Agents contacted him at his home, and he acknowledged that he did access images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct and knew it as wrong. He admitted that child pornography was on his cell phone and that he had been downloading the images from different websites for some time. The devices that he had been using since 2013 were turned over to the Arkansas State Police who conducted a forensic analysis where they found child pornography on all of the devices.

When Kellam moved from Arkansas to Oklahoma he transported in interstate commerce 67 images of child pornography, one of which depicted a child between the age of 6 – 9 years old being sexually assaulted by an adult male.

Kellam was indicted by a federal grand jury in March, 2016 and pleaded guilty to the charge in May, 2016.

“HSI works everyday with our state and local law enforcement partners to ensure the perpetrators of these despicable crimes are brought to justice”, said Special Agent in Charge of HSI New Orleans Raymond R. Parmer, Jr. “We will continue to aggressively investigate any allegations of child exploitation and seek justice for the victims.”

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