Robert W. Knorr, Jr. Child Pornography, Missouri 2016

Defendant Sentenced for Horrific Child Abuse

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A St. Joseph, Mo., man with a prior murder conviction was sentenced in federal court today on charges related to child pornography.

Robert W. Knorr, Jr., 47, of St. Joseph, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gary A. Fenner to eight years and one month in federal prison without parole.

Knorr pleaded guilty to two counts of distributing child pornography over the Internet, one count of receiving child pornography over the Internet and one count of possessing child pornography. The horrific crimes were committed despite his prior conviction for murder, for which he was sentenced to 15 years in prison, and accessory to murder after the fact, for which he was sentenced to three years in prison.

On Feb. 4, 2016, Knorr pleaded guilty to the charges. Investigators discovered evidence on Knorr’s computer of numerous Internet and peer-to-peer network searches for child pornography, including images of children as young as three years of age, and evidence showing the downloading of thousands of files.

The FBI Child Exploitation Task Force was able to download a 23-minute video of child pornography that depicts a pubescent female approximately 12 to 13 years of age. A second video was downloaded on May 19, 2014, that depicts the sexual assault of a 13-to-15-year-old female.

This case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney David Luna and was investigated by the FBI Cyber Crimes Task Force. It was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.

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. 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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