Granby Man Sentenced for Child Porn

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Granby, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for receiving child pornography over the Internet.

Kyle Christopher Largen, 30, of Granby, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge M. Douglas Harpool to nine years in federal prison without parole. Today’s sentence must be served consecutively to any sentence Largen receives in state court. The court also ordered Largen to pay $1,000 in restitution to one of the victims whose images of child sexual abuse he received.

On Oct. 20, 2015, Largen pleaded guilty to receiving child pornography.

The case began on Feb. 25, 2015, when a detective with the Joplin, Mo., Police Department became involved in a child sexual abuse investigation regarding Largen following a child abuse hotline report. On April 15, 2015, law enforcement officers executed a search warrant at Largen’s residence and seized his laptop, which contained images of child pornography. According to court documents, Largen possessed 1,769 images of child pornography and 235,554 images of pornographic anime, many of which depicted sadistic or masochistic conduct.

According court documents, Largen was showing pornography to two 4- and 5-year-old children.

This case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Ami Harshad Miller. It was investigated by the Southwest Missouri Cyber Crime Task Force and the Joplin, Mo., Police Department.

Project Safe Childhood

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 the United States Attorneys' Offices and the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.usdoj.gov/psc . For more information about Internet safety education, please visit www.usdoj.gov/psc and click on the tab "resources."