ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - A Jefferson County, Missouri Man was sentenced to 30 years in prison for admitting that he had recorded the sexual abuse of toddler.
According to the guilty plea Kyle J. Gipson, 23, admitted to possessing child sexual abuse material involving the 2-year-old victim and others and discussed his sexual abuse of the victim with others on social media.
Gipson was the monitor and gatekeeper for a social media group focused on child sexual abuse material, bestiality and rape.
Gipson was arrested after a court-approved search of his home on March 2023. after an undercover FBI agent in an online group dedicated to discussing and trading original images of child sexual abuse learned of Gipson. The agent and Gipson began communicating on the social media platform Wickr and later moved to Telegram.
Gipson sent the agent a picture of the victim and said he had sexually abused her. He also sent a nude picture of her and offered to provide access so the girl could be sexually abused.