Saturday, September 28, 2019

11th Circuit Affirms 120-Year Sentence Of Former Live Oak Police Sergeant Convicted Of Producing And Possessing Child Pornography. (USDOJ Press Release)


Child predators and child pornographers, including prosecutors and police officers beware: the FBI has your information and our U.S. Attorney will prosecute you. 





After a jury convicted him, U.S. District Court Judge Timothy J. Corrigan sentenced KYLE ADAM KIRBY to 120 years in prison. 

The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed the sentence, finding no error.  

Officer KIRBY used Live Oak, Florida Police Department patrol car computer commencing on Christmas Eve, 2014, "to search for, download, access, and possess child pornography from as early as December 24, 2014."

How many Florida police officers view sick child porno in their police vehicles, pulled into the parking lot of businesses, when they think no one is watching them?

Makes you wonder why St. Johns County Sheriff DAVID SHOAR is opposed to police body cameras, calling it a "false narrative" that "cops need to be watched."

Cops need to be watched.

From USDOJ press release:




Department of Justice
U.S. Attorney’s Office
Middle District of Florida

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, September 18, 2019

Court Of Appeals Affirms 120-Year Sentence Of Former Live Oak Police Sergeant Convicted Of Producing And Possessing Child Pornography

Jacksonville, Florida – Maria Chapa Lopez announces that, on September 17, 2019, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed the 120-year federal-prison sentence of Kyle Adam Kirby (39, Live Oak), who was convicted of producing, attempting to produce, possessing, and accessing images and videos depicting the sexual abuse of minors. Kirby was arrested on October 28, 2015, at the Live Oak Police Department (LOPD) and has remained in custody since that date. A federal jury found him guilty on December 7, 2017.
According to testimony and evidence at trial, on October 22, 2015, FBI agents and other law enforcement officers executed a search warrant at Kirby’s residence as a result of an online child exploitation investigation. At that time, Kirby was a sergeant with the Live Oak Police Department. That same morning, the LOPD chief authorized the agents to inspect and search the computer located inside Kirby’s patrol car. A forensic examination of this computer revealed that it contained images depicting young children engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Kirby had used the patrol car’s computer to search for, download, access, and possess child pornography from as early as December 24, 2014.
A later search of an LOPD desktop computer used by Kirby revealed images depicting nude and partially undressed children in at least three different bathrooms. The evidence at trial revealed that Kirby had used one or more concealed cameras to surreptitiously film the unsuspecting minors. He had then transferred these images to the LOPD desktop computer and later had unsuccessfully attempted to delete them. Agents were able to locate folders on the computer named for several of Kirby’s victims.   
In March 2018, United States District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan sentenced Kirby to serve 120 years in federal prison for these crimes. Kirby appealed his sentence to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, but that court affirmed, holding that the district court had not erred in calculating Kirby’s United States Sentence Guidelines advisory sentence of life imprisonment, which the court said, means a sentence that is “indefinite in duration.” The court said that Kirby’s 120-year sentence was “the closest available sentence to indefinite incarceration,” and concluded that, “when the Sentencing Guidelines recommend life imprisonment, they mean life imprisonment.”
The Court of Appeals also held that Kirby’s sentence was not unreasonably long, noting that, before imposing the longest sentence that it could, the District Court had “thoroughly discussed Kirby’s particularly heinous conduct and direct participation in the creation of child pornography, his breach of public trust as a police officer, and his total failure to take responsibility for his actions.”
This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office, and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, with the full cooperation of the Live Oak Police Department. Assistant United States Attorney D. Rodney Brown prosecuted the case in the District Court, and Linda Julin McNamara, Sara Sweeney, and Michelle Thresher Taylor represented the United States on appeal.
It is another case 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.justice.gov/psc.   

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