Knox County man sentenced to more than 20 years behind bars for repeat child porn crimes

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- A Knox County man has been sentenced to more than 20 years behind bars for distributing and possessing child porn after being previously convicted of similar crimes.

Lee Allen Goudy of Howard, Ohio, was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court. The FBI received multiple tips in August 2023 that Goudy, 30, was believed to have uploaded child porn online, FBI agents said.

Authorities said an investigation showed Goudy, a registered Tier II sex offender from a previous similar crime, had approximately 650 videos and 100 images of child sex abuse on his iPhone. Authorities said the videos and images included those of infants and toddlers, along with the sexual torture of babies.

A second cell phone showed searches for content related to violence, rape and sex acts against infants and toddlers, and contained 150 images of child sex abuse that Goudy had traded on Discord, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Ohio.

Authorities said Goudy also distributed child porn from a Reddit account via Kik messenger and on X.

The investigation also determined that Goudy performed searches on his iPhone for “supervised release monitoring iPhone” and “does federal monitoring work on iPhone,” officials said.

Goudy was arrested in September 2023 for violating his federal supervised release warrant and pleaded guilty in April 2024 to the child pornography crimes, according to authorities. He previously served time for the prior similar crime, and was on supervised release at the time of his most recent arrest.