United States Attorney James T. Jacks
Northern District of Texas

TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2010
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/txn/

YOUNG COUNTY MAN SENTENCED TO 10 YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON
FOR POSSESSING CHILD PORNOGRAPHY

WICHITA FALLS, Texas — Dennis Wade Kee, 38, of Olney, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor to 10 years in federal prison for using the Internet to download and possess images of minor children engaged in sexually explicit conduct, announced U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of the Northern District of Texas. Judge O’Connor also ordered that Kee serve a lifetime of supervised release and register as a sex offender. He was remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service.

According to documents filed with his plea, Kee admitted that in October 2008, when U.S. Secret Service agents visited his residence based on a lead they had received, they found child pornography on his computer. Kee admitted that he had obtained child pornography from the Internet and had allowed others to access this child pornography via the Internet using peer-to-peer software.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice, to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. 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 http://www.projectsafechildhood.gov/

The case was investigated by the U.S. Secret Service, with assistance from the Longview, Texas, Police Department, and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Alex C. Lewis of the Fort Worth, Texas, U.S. Attorney’s Office.

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