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Smithville Man Sentenced to 12 Years for Child Pornography
A Smithville, Missouri man has been sentenced to 12 years in federal prison without parole for receiving child pornography over the internet.
Jacob A. Arnold, 20, was sentenced by U.S. Chief District Judge Greg Kays on the same day that Arnold admitted to receiving child pornography over the internet on March 17, 2015. At the time, Arnold was on bond for a state child molestation charge in Clay County, Missouri.
Arnold pleaded guilty on October 22, 2015, and admitted to receiving the child pornography. The images and videos included graphic depictions of sexual acts by adults against children as young as three years of age.
The investigation began when the Western Missouri Cyber Crimes Task Force received a cybertip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children regarding a video of child pornography that had been uploaded from Arnold’s computer to a DropBox account.
Members of the WMCC Task Force and officers of the Smithville Police Department executed a state search warrant at Arnold’s residence on June 4, 2015, and seized computers, cameras, digital storage devices, and a cell phone. Child pornography was located on each of the items seized from Arnold’s residence.
The federal sentence will be served concurrently with Arnold’s 15-year sentence for child molestation in Clay County, Missouri. This case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney David Luna and investigated by the Western Missouri Cyber Crimes Task Force and the Smithville, Mo., Police Department as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.
Key Facts
- State: Missouri
- Category: Sex Crimes|Cybercrime|Public Corruption|Violent Crime|Human Trafficking|White Collar Crime|Organized Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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