INDIANAPOLIS- Kenneth Woods, age 35, of Indianapolis, has been sentenced to 235 months in federal jail after pleading responsible to distributing and receiving photos and movies of kid sexual abuse over the web, whereas having been beforehand convicted in Florida of comparable conduct.
In keeping with courtroom paperwork, in 2021, Fb and Snapchat accounts later discovered to be related to Woods got here to the eye of IMPD for importing movies depicting little one sexual abuse. A search of Woods’s residence in Indianapolis yielded a cellular phone that contained nonetheless extra movies of kid sexual abuse. Nonetheless additional investigation finally uncovered an e-mail account utilized by Woods to ship movies of kid sexual abuse to a selected particular person, with whom Woods additionally exchanged messages about intercourse acts he desired to carry out with that particular person’s minor daughter. The kid intercourse abuse supplies distributed and possessed by Woods included depictions of the sexual abuse of infants and toddlers or different depictions of violence.
Woods was beforehand convicted in 2021 in Citrus County, Florida, of two felony prices associated to obscene communications with a minor and possessing {a photograph} depicting little one sexual abuse.
Zachary A. Myers, United States Lawyer for the Southern District of Indiana, Randal Taylor, Chief of Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Division, and Jeffrey R. Adams, Particular Agent in Cost of the U. S. Secret Service’s Indianapolis Discipline Workplace made the announcement.
“Criminals with a sexual curiosity in kids proceed to make use of social media platforms and different web applied sciences to hunt out and disseminate vile photos of horrific abuses,” stated U.S. Lawyer Myers. “Repeat offenders like this defendant reveal their unwillingness or incapability to cease committing these crimes, exacerbating the trauma already inflicted on little one victims. The sentence imposed as we speak demonstrates the dedication of federal regulation enforcement and IMPD to make our youngsters safer by making certain that these harmful repeat offenders are in jail the place they belong.”
IMPD, with help from the U.S. Secret Service, investigated this case. The sentence was imposed by U.S. District Court docket Chief Choose Tanya Walton Pratt. Chief Choose Pratt additionally ordered that Marshall be supervised by the U.S. Probation Workplace for 10 years following his launch from federal jail.
U.S. Lawyer Myers thanked Assistant U.S. Lawyer Kristina Korobov, who prosecuted this case.
This case was introduced as a part of Challenge Secure Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in Might 2006 by the Division of Justice to fight the rising epidemic of kid sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by U.S. Attorneys’ Workplaces and the Little one Exploitation and Obscenity Part, Challenge Secure Childhood marshals federal, state, and native assets to higher find, apprehend and prosecute people who exploit kids by way of the web, in addition to to establish and rescue victims. For extra details about Challenge Secure Childhood, please go to www.justice.gov/psc.