Mansfield Man Sentenced to 30 Years for Producing Child Pornography

Keevon Carter-Hickmon, a 30-year-old Mansfield man, was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for producing child pornography, announced Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham. 

Carter-Hickmon was indicted and pleaded guilty in January 2025 to production of child pornography.  He was sentenced to 360 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor on May 2, 2025.  

According to a factual resume signed by the defendant, Carter-Hickmon drove to a local middle school to pick up a minor after communicating with the minor online for several months.  Carter-Hickmon took the minor to a motel in Arlington where they had sexual contact.  Carter-Hickmon recorded and then distributed pornographic images of the minor over the internet.  While awaiting trial on state charges, Carter-Hickmon solicited another minor online and received additional child pornography from that minor. 

Acting United States Attorney Meacham praised the extraordinary efforts of the agencies involved in bringing justice on behalf of the victims.  Those agencies included the Arlington Police Department, Stephenville Police Department, Mansfield Police Department, United States Secret Service, and Homeland Security Investigations conducted the investigation.  Assistant United States Attorney Allyson Monte prosecuted the case.

The case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative, which was launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice, to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.  Led by U.S. Attorney’s Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals, who sexually exploit children, and identify and rescue victims.  For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit http://www.justice.gov/psc.  For more information about internet safety education, please visit http://www.justice.gov/psc and click on the tab “resources.”