Sex Offender Busted with Kiddie Porn, Soliciting a Minor; Hundreds More Charges Possible

MOUNT DORA, Florida—A registered sex offender is facing a litany of sex-related charges after Florida Department of Law Enforcement agents searched his phone and found numerous files of sexually exploited children—some of them infants.

Christopher Michael Kinney, 35, of Leesburg, was originally arrested on Tuesday for possession of child pornography and failure to register as a sex offender and was released on $10,000 bond the following day. At the time of his arrest, his phone was seized, and agents found 20 more photos containing male and female children ranging from infants to 13 years old and arrested him again Thursday at his job in downtown Mount Dora, according to an arrest affidavit.

Kinney is now facing 22 counts of possession of child pornography, four counts of distribution of child pornography, two counts of failure to register an online identifier, two counts of distribution of harmful material to a minor and solicitation of a minor. Kinney is being held in the Lake County Jail on $76,000 bond and may be facing more charges.

“It should be noted a brief review of the results of the full forensic examination revealed there are potentially hundreds of additional files depicting child pornography,” the arresting FDLE agent noted in the affidavit.

The initial examination of the phone revealed Kinney using the chat app Wik-r with the username tdrifter69. He communicated with at least two individuals, one he believed to be a bisexual 15-year-old boy. He sent that individual a picture of a sexual organ and said, “I’m 35 bi into young and incest,” the affidavit states. Kinney also had a Grindr account with the username host fwb, but agents were unable to determine if he communicated with minors because of the way the app stores data.

In 2017, Kinney pleaded no contest to traveling to meet a minor for illegal sexual conduct, possession of marijuana and possession of paraphernalia. In that case, Kinney thought he was communicating with the father of a 13-year-old girl. He admitted to a Lake County Sheriff’s Office detective he sent a message that said, “bend her over the bed and break her in nice and slow.” Kinney was sentenced to 21 months in prison, followed by two years probation. He served 17 months of his sentence. It is unclear if he completed his probation term.

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