Marion Man Pleads Guilty on Child Porn Charges

A Marion, Kentucky, man has pleaded guilty before United States District Judge Joseph McKinley Jr. for distributing and receiving child pornography, announced United States Attorney Russell M. Coleman.
 
According to the plea agreement, on September 25, 2017, Edward L. Walton, age 31, in Webster County, Kentucky, and elsewhere, knowingly distributed and received child pornography. A federal Grand Jury sitting in Owensboro indicted Walton on the two charges on June 13, 2018.

Walton faces a statutory mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of 5 years and supervised release of at least 5 years and up to any number of years, including life.

The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Seth Hancock, the chief of the Paducah, Kentucky branch office, and was investigated by Homeland Security Investigations and the Kentucky State Police.