Omaha Man Sentenced to 360 Months for Sexual Exploitation of Children

United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Timothy J. Kirsch, 36, was sentenced today in federal court in Omaha, Nebraska for Sexual Exploitation of Children. The Senior United States District Judge Laurie Smith Camp sentenced Kirsch to 360 months’ imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal prison system. After his release from prison, Kirsch will be on supervised release for life and will be required to register as a sex offender.

In December 2018, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Omaha was contacted by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement after a minor female’s mother reported concerning text messages on her daughter’s cell phone. Federal agents executed a search warrant to seize and search Kirsch’s cell phone and located text message conversations with the minor female in Florida as well as a second minor female in Wisconsin. HSI was able to determine that Kirsch first started speaking to the minors in online chat rooms and then began conversing with them via text message. In the text message conversations, Kirsch sent explicit photographs and videos of himself and requested explicit photographs of the minors. Kirsch also attempted to arrange for the minors to travel to Nebraska to have sex with him.

In March 2002, Kirsch was convicted of Lascivious Acts with a Child in Page County, Iowa. Kirsch also has three convictions for failing to register as a sex offender and was on supervised release in December 2018 when the conduct in this case occurred.

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 Florida Department of Law Enforcement and Homeland Security Investigations.