Tyler B. Wirth, Producing Child Pornography, Missouri 2023

A St. Joseph man has been sentenced to 23 years in federal prison for producing and possessing child pornography.

Tyler B. Wirth, 35, received the sentence from U.S. District Judge Gary A. Fenner for producing and possessing child pornography. The court also ordered Wirth to spend the rest of his life on supervised release following incarceration and to pay $14,381 in victim restitution.

Wirth will be required to register as a sex offender upon his release from prison and will be subject to federal and state sex offender registration requirements, which may apply throughout his life.

Wirth pleaded guilty on January 17, 2023, to one count of producing child pornography and one count of possessing child pornography. He admitted to producing pornographic images of three children, which he distributed to multiple users on the Kik application during his sexual conversations with them.

Wirth admitted to communicating extensively with others over the Kik application in July and August 2020 about his desire to sexually abuse children. He produced child pornography to distribute to other users within these Kik chats, taking pornographic photos of three child victims. He also discussed with numerous Kik users his desire to sexually abuse the child victims, and repeatedly asked for guidance from other Kik users on how he should go about sexually abusing them.

Wirth received hundreds of images and videos of child pornography from other Kik users, and distributed numerous other images and videos of child pornography from his possession of child pornography, which included over a thousand images and videos of child pornography.

This case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Kenneth Borgnino and investigated by the FBI as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.usdoj.gov/psc.

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