KANSAS CITY, KAN. – A Kansas man with a prior rape conviction was sentenced today to 197 months in federal prison for distributing child pornography, according to U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister. In addition, he was ordered to pay $95,000 in restitution.
James Minter, 47, Linwood, Kan., pleaded guilty to one count of receipt and distribution of child pornography. In his plea, he admitted that law enforcement received a report from CyberTipline (https://www.missingkids.org/gethelpnow/cybertipline ) that he had uploaded a file containing child pornography via the internet. Investigators tracked the upload to Minter’s residence in Linwood. More than 1,000 images and 200 videos depicting the sexual abuse of children were seize from Minter’s devices.
In 1998, Minter was convicted of rape and criminal sodomy after assaulting a 5-year-old child. He was released from prison in May 2018.