Blue Springs man sentenced to 10 years for distributing child sexual-abuse material

Kristopher Brandon Holcomb, 44, of Blue Springs was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for distributing child sexual-abuse material over a mobile application, capping a multiagency investigation that began with state task force agents and ended with a federal judge ordering restitution for identified victims.

U.S. District Judge Sharion Aycock imposed the 120-month term alongside 10 years of supervised release and directed restitution to the victims identified in the recovered files who sought compensation, though specific dollar amounts were not publicly disclosed. Holcomb is also required to register as a sex offender upon release.

Court documents show Holcomb used a popular mobile application to upload and distribute child sexual-abuse material from July 2024 to May 2025. He was also communicating with people he believed to be minors through the same app and sending them the material directly. A search of his electronic devices uncovered more than 60 videos and 192 images, files that identified victims, some of whom sought restitution.

The investigation began with the Mississippi Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, working through the state attorney general's office, before U.S. Homeland Security Investigations assumed the case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Parker S. King prosecuted it as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide federal program led by the U.S. Attorneys' Offices and the Justice Department's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section that marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute those who exploit children online and to identify and rescue victims.

The combined sentence, 10 years of incarceration followed immediately by 10 years of supervised release, leaves Holcomb under some form of federal authority until at least 2046.