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September 28, 2009
LOUISVILLE MAN SENTENCED FOR RECEIVING AND POSSESSING CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
LOUISVILLE, KY - Matthew Vincent Kelley, age 38, of Louisville, Kentucky, in Jefferson County, was sentenced to 5 years’ imprisonment in United States District Court, Louisville, Kentucky, for receiving and possessing child pornography, United States Attorney Candace G. Hill announced today. John G. Heyburn, II, Judge, United States District Court, also sentenced Kelley to lifetime supervised release following incarceration. There is no parole in the federal judicial system.
Kelley had pled guilty on September 3, 2008, admitting that he possessed and received child pornography between March 2006 and March 2007. Kelley's former wife had obtained two letters Kelley wrote in which he acknowledged that he liked to look at child pornography. In a subsequent videotaped child custody hearing, Kelley admitted that the letters were true. The Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) executed a search warrant at Kelley's apartment and seized a computer, and a forensic analysis of the computer revealed over 100 images of child pornography. LMPD also obtained Kelley’s laptop computer, and a forensic analysis revealed additional images, and a video, of child pornography.
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 by the Department of Justice. Led by United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), 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. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney David Weiser and was investigated by the Louisville Metro Police Department.
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