Trevor Hansen, Distribution of Child Pornography, Nebraska 2023

A former Lincoln Correctional Officer has been sentenced for distributing child pornography in Nebraska.

On February 22, 2023, Trevor Hansen, 30, of Lincoln, Nebraska, was sentenced to 5 years and 3 months in prison and 6 years of supervised release with special conditions by United States District Judge John M. Gerrard in Lincoln.

Hansen was also ordered to pay $9,000 in restitution. There is no parole in the federal system.

The case began when Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI”) in Nebraska received a cyber tip indicating that Kik user “MOOSE2356” (later identified as Hansen) uploaded a child pornography file on June 11, 2019.

On July 1, 2020, HSI received a second cyber tip indicating that Snapchat user “MOOSE3257” (also later identified as Hansen) had uploaded child pornography. On August 17, 2020, HSI executed a search warrant at Hansen’s residence.

A review of Hansen’s cell phone revealed approximately 307 image files of child pornography. The examination of his cell phone also revealed text messages in which Hansen exchanged child pornography files with other people in quid pro quo type exchanges.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006.

Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims.

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