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Little Rock man sentenced to 15 years in prison for child pornography

Kenneth Laren Harvey was sentenced Thursday for possessing and distributing child pornography that showed children as young as one-year-old being sexually abused.

A Little Rock man was sentenced Thursday for possessing and distributing child pornography that showed children as young as one-year-old being sexually abused. Kenneth Laren Harvey of Little Rock was sentenced to 180 months in federal prison.

During an online investigation in 2017, detectives downloaded child pornography from an IP address that officers traced to Harvey’s residence. The child pornography that detectives downloaded from Harvey included numerous videos depicting sexual acts being performed on children under the age of 12. Some of the videos were over 30 minutes long. 

Based on those downloads, investigators obtained a search warrant for Harvey’s home. Officers seized multiple electronic devices, and forensic examination revealed that Harvey possessed over 2,000 images of child pornography. The images included depictions of sadism and masochism, as well as sexual acts being performed on children as young as one to three years old. 

During the search, detectives also discovered a peephole in Harvey’s shower, which he used to secretly film women. 

Harvey was indicted by a federal grand jury on January 9, 2018, in an indictment that charged him with one count of possession of child pornography and three counts of distribution of child pornography. 

Harvey was also ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution and ten years of supervised release following his term of imprisonment. 

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