Omaha Man Sentenced to 300 Months for Production of Child Pornography

United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Adam Scott Barnes, 26, was sentenced today in federal court in Omaha for production of child pornography. United States District Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. sentenced Barnes to 300 months’ imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal prison system. After his release from prison, Barnes will serve a 10-year term of supervised release and will be required to register as a sex offender.

In September 2019, federal agents began investigating after receiving a report that a Dropbox user had uploaded approximately 596 images and videos of suspected child pornography. Agents executed a search warrant at Barnes’s residence and seized several electronic devices, including Barnes’s cell phone. Barnes admitted to receiving and viewing child pornography. When agents began to review the images and videos on Barnes’s cell phone, they determined that at least one image and one video depicted child pornography that had been produced in Barnes’s residence with Barnes’s cell phone. The six-year-old victim identified Barnes as the person who had produced the image and video. After his arrest, Barnes admitted to producing 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 Attorney’s 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.

This case was investigated by Homeland Security Investigations.