KNOXVILLE, Tennessee – A 44-year-old Knoxville man will spend 126 months in federal prison for distributing child pornography, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Tennessee announced.
U.S. District Judge Katherine A. Crytzer sentenced Darrell Moore on October 30 in federal court in Knoxville. Moore will serve 20 years of supervised release after he leaves prison. He must register with state sex offender registries and follow special sex offender conditions during that time.
Plea agreement
Moore agreed to plead guilty to an indictment charging him with one count of distribution of child pornography. The charge falls under 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(2) and § 2252A(b)(1).
How investigators found him
Court documents say that in June 2022, during an FBI operation, Moore sent an undercover FBI agent videos of children under the age of 8. He used the username “supercooldaddy.”
Federal agents then executed a search warrant at Moore’s Knoxville home. They seized his cellphone, which held about 40 child pornography images and 62 child pornography videos.
Moore admitted he knowingly distributed child pornography to others over the Kik chatting platform.
Agencies involved
U.S. Attorney Francis M. Hamilton III and Special Agent in Charge Terrence G. Riley of the FBI Nashville Field Office’s Knoxville Resident Agency announced the sentence.
The Knoxville Police Department’s Internet Crimes Against Children unit, KPD Special Crimes and the FBI Knoxville Resident Agency investigated the case. The Johnson City Police Department and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation assisted.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Suzanne H. Sullivan represented the United States.
