St. Louis, MO – Scott B. Walsh, 48, of Kirksville, MO, was
sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for Receipt of Child Pornography. Walsh
appeared before United States District Judge John A. Ross.
According to court documents, in September of 2017 it came
to the attention of Shelbina and Kirksville Police Departments that Walsh had
solicited child pornography from a twelve-year boy in the area. The police and
FBI discovered that Walsh, a registered sex offender, had befriended the
twelve-year old boy, and given the child presents (such a bike and cell phone).
Walsh persuaded the child, after numerous and constant text messaging, to send
Walsh a self-produced video which depicted child pornography. The Kirksville
Regional Computer Crimes Unit was able to forensically locate the video on the
child’s cell phone, as well as, the many text messages Walsh had sent the
child.
Walsh pled guilty to Deviate Sexual Assault in an unrelated
case on December 20, 2004, Boone County, Missouri and received five years in
state prison.
The Kirksville Police Department, the Kirksville Regional
Computer Crimes Unit, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Shelbina
Police Department investigated the case.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Colleen Lang is handling the case
for the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
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