Paul L. Sipeer, Child Pornography, Missouri 2016

Grimy Times Exclusives: A convicted sex offender in Duenweg, Missouri, has been sentenced to 17 years and six months in federal prison without parole for receiving child pornography over the Internet. Paul L. Sipeer, 65, was handed down the sentence by U.S. District Judge M. Douglas Harpool.

Sipeer is a registered sex offender with a 1992 conviction for sexual abuse in the first degree involving the physical harm of a 7-year-old child. According to court documents, Sipeer admitted to sexually molesting at least three other children besides the victim of the crime resulting in his conviction. He also admitted to accessing child pornography within one year of his release from prison in 1994.

By pleading guilty, Sipeer admitted to receiving child pornography between July 1, 2012, and Jan. 26, 2016. During this time, Sipeer made online money transfers between $10 and $20 several times a month to individuals in the Philippines. These transactions are often used to send funds to pay for sexual performances by children in the Philippines.

Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents discovered Sipeer’s money transfers and launched an investigation. They found that Sipeer had been making transactions since January 2013, with amounts ranging up to $480. Law enforcement officers contacted Sipeer at his residence on Jan. 26, 2016, and he confessed to actively downloading images depicting child pornography from the Internet.

Several images of child pornography, depicting children younger than 10 years old, were located on Sipeer’s computer. This case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney James J. Kelleher and investigated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Southwest Missouri Cyber Crime Task Force.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the U.S. Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.usdoj.gov/psc. For more information about Internet safety education, please visit www.usdoj.gov/psc and click on the tab ‘resources.’

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